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THE LEAVENS NAME 

INCLUDING LEVINGS 



AN ACCOUNT OF 
THE POSTERITY DESCENDING FROM EMIGRANT 

JOHN levins: 16^2-1903 



BY PHILO FRENCH LEAVENS 



1903 

PASSAIC DAILY NEWS PRINT 
PASSAIC, N. J. 



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A New England Home. 

See pages 27, (i- and s7. 



DEDICATION. 

THIS book is dedicated to the boys. We mean the boys who bear the 
name LEAVENS or LEVINGS. We mean also the boys in whose 
veins runs the blood coming down from our early American ancestor. 
The boys of to-day have a fine part to play in the years just ahead. We 
want them to catch inspiration from the vigor, and the courage, and the 
industry, and the patriotism, and the sound character of their fore- 
fathers. 

We do not have occasion to relate brilliant things in the story of the 
name we bear ; but w« bring to sight things hones^t and honorable, things 
creditable and useful, and such things are the best for imitation. 

It runs in our blood to take a hand in public affairs wherever any of 
us live. The boys will note a considerable number on these pages who 
have pushed along through school, to college and into the professions. It 
is an example which we hope hundreds will follow hereafter, for the 
future is going to make large demands for men of influence in America. 

We have taken pains to mention every one we could learn of who has 
taken part in any of the memorable wars which have made secure the 
happy land that we now enjoy. Let every reader note with reverence the 
names of those who fell or disappeared in the wars. We are indebted for 
our privileges to men who have dared, and to some who have died for their 
country . 

God Bless the boys of to-day and kindle in their hearts 
manly aspirations, worthy their blood and 
up to the full measure of their 
splendid opportunities. 



PREFACE. 

THIS volume is the fruit of quiet study running through a lifetime. 
My racy old grand-mother had memories. extending back clearly to 
the Revolution, in w^hich her father had been a soldier. Few were the 
facts she could tell me about the Leavens people, because all her days were 
passed upon the edges of the forests of New England. But she told me 
enough to excite curiosity. When therefore 1 obtained access to books in 
the libraries of the great cities, and had the privilege of visiting historic 
sites in Connecticut and Massachusetts, little by little I worked out the 
story. It has never cost an effort. It has been diversion rather in the odd 
hours of a life otherwise fully employed. 

I would have been very glad to push inquiries back to the records in 
old England and determine the identity and relation there of the first man 
of our name here ; but I would not care for any research that were not 
exact and thorough, and the cost and effort would be more than I would 
like to bear single-handed. So I have said nothing of the English 
ancestry. 

My foremost obligation for assistance is to the " History of Windham 
County, Conn." and its diligent author, Miss Ellen D. Lamed, of 'Ihomp- 
son. She will recognize numerous and extensive quotations from what 
she has written, and I here express to her my cordial thanks. The Colonial 
Records of the New England states are now published and are easily con- 
sulted in New York or Boston. Many an hour have I enjoyed in those 
pages. Then there are local histories of towns where Leavens people have 
lived, and I have turned the leaves of as many as I could lay my hands on. 
I am somewhat reluctant to admit to my own mind how much I have 
besieged and importuned strangers with inquiries which (I sorely fear) 
may often have seemed impertinent. However I now beg pardon of one 
and all, and extend sincere thanks to every one who has borne the imposi- 
tion and has responded with precious items of intelligence. If only now I 
were not haunted with the apprehension that these pages will be found 
blotched with errors, deficiences, and perhaps blunders apparently inex- 
cusable. I have done the best I could with the intricate task and will 
have to stand the blame. I have but a single remedy to propose. Prob- 
ably I will have a few copies of the book bound with inter-leavod pages. 
If corrections and additions are sent to me, it will be a pleasure to make 
note of them, and I would be glad if I could transmit some day, a per- 
fected record of the " Leavens and Levings Name" to the Public Library 
in each of the three great centres, Boston, Chicago and New York. The 
genealogists are keen-sighted and I know that nothing will escape their 
search; and I should hope that now and then one of the family, from pure 
affection, would be glad to consult such a corrected version. 

P. F. L. 



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I. 

FROM OLD TO NEW ENGLAND. 



In order to picture to the eye the earliest settlement of Massaclmsetts, 
we cannot do better than to quote freely from the admirable "History of 
the English People." There had been effected a permanent lodgement at 
Jamestown, Virginia, in the year 1607, and the Mayflower, bearing the 
"Pilgrim Fathers," had landed at Plymouth in 1620. A movement quite 
distinct fi'om either of these was the colonization of Massachusetts Bay. 
Yet, says Mr. John Kichard Green, in the work above referred to, "from the 
moment of their establishment" (the Pilgrims at Plymouth) "the eyes of 
the English Puritans were fixed on this little Puritan settlement in North 
America. Through the early years of Charles " (1625 and onwards) "projects 
were being canvassed for the establishment of a new settlement beside 
the little Plymouth; and the aid which the merchants of Boston, in Lin- 
colnshire, gave to the realization of this project was acknowledged in the 
name of its capital. At the moment he was dissolving his third Parlia- 
ment" (March 10, 1629) "Charles granted the charter which established 
the colony of Massachusetts; and by the Puritans at large the grant was 
at once regarded as a providential call." 

The Massachusetts Company had been formed in 1628, and a party, 
led by John Endicott, had come ovei* and taken a iwsition at Salem. The 
confirmation of the Company by a royal charter would, of course, stimn- 
ilate its zeal. 

"Out of the failure of their great constitutional struggle," continues 
Mr. Green, "and the pressing danger to 'godliness' in England rose tlie 



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dream of a land in the west where religion and liberty could find a safe 
and lasting home. The parliament was hardly dissolved when 'conclusions' 
for the establishment of a great colony on the other side of the Atlantic 
were circulated among gentry and traders, and descriptions of the new 
country of Massachusetts were talked over in every Puritan household. 
The proposal was welcomed with the quiet, stem enthusiasm which 
marked the temper of the time; but the words of a well-known emigrant 
show how hard it was even for the sternest enthusiasts to tear them- 
selves from their native land, 'I shall call that my country,' wrote the 
younger Winthrop in answer to feelings of this sort, 'where I may most 
glorify God and enjoy the presence of my dearest friends.' The answer 
was accepted, and the Puritan emigration began on a scale such as 
England had never before seen. The 200 who first sailed for Salem 
were soon followed by 800 men; and 700 more followed ere the first 
year of personal government" (the king without a parliament) "had run 
its course. Nor were the emigrants, like the earlier colonists of the 
South, 'broken men,' adventurers, bankrupts, criminals; or simply poor 
men and artisans, like the Pilgrim fathers of the Mayflower. They were 
in groat part men of the professional and middle classes; some of them 
men of large landed estate, some zealous clergymen, like Cotton, 
Hooker and Roger Williams; some shrewd London lawyers, or young 
scholars from Oxford, The bulk were God-fearing farmers from Lin- 
colnshire and the eastern counties. They desired in fact 'only the best' 
as sharers in their enterprise; men driven forth from their fatherland 
not by earthly want, or by the greed of gold, or by the lust of adven- 
ture, but by tiie fear of God, and the zeal for a godly worship. But 
strong as was their zeal, it was not without a wrench that they tore 
themselves from their English homes. 'Farewell dear England!' was 
the cry which burst from the first little company of emigrants as its 
shores faded from their sight. 'Our hearts,' wrote Winthrop's followers 
to the brethren whom they had left behind, 'shall be fountains of tears 
for your everlasting welfare, when we shall be in our poor cottages in 
the wilderness.' " 

The historian goes on:— "For a while, as the first terrors of perse- 
cution died down, there was a lull in the emigration. But no sooner had 
Laud's system made itself felt than again 'godly people in England be- 
gan to apprehend a special hand of providence in raising this plantation' 
in Massachusetts; 'and their hearts were generally stirred to come over.' 
It was in vain that weaker men returned to bring news of hardships 
and dangers, and told how 200 of the neM--comers had perished in the 
first winter. A letter from Winthrop told how the rest toiled manfully on. 
'We do now enjoy God and Jesus Christ,' he wrote to those at home, 
'and is not that enough? I thank God I like bo well to be here as I do 



FROM OLD TO NEW ENGLAND. 



not repent my coming. I would riot have altered my course though I 
had foreseen all these afflictions. I never had more content of mind.' " 

Still further:— "As years went by and the contest grew hotter at 
home, the number of emigrants grew fast. Three thousand new coloniet-s 
arrived from England in a sirgle year. Between the sailing of Win- 
throp's expedition and the assembling of the Long Parliament (1630-1640), 
in the space, that is, of ten or eleven years, 200 emigrant ships had 
crossed the Atlantic, and 20,000 Englishmen had found a refuge in the 
west." 

Our attention is demanded near the beginning of this wonderfil 
decade. In 1630 the government of the Massachusetts Company trans- 
ferred itself to the colony, when John Winthrop came over and founded 
Boston. Tlie disheartening reports of th.it first sad winter had gone 
back, and with them Wiuthrop's resolute words of determination. These 
things were pondered in Puritan homes. Happily we have a clear sign 
of the response. We learn from a good authority that,— "In a large 
Volume bound in vellum, now in the Rolls Office, Chancery Lane, London, 
are records of a few of the early emigrants to New England. On the 
cover of the Volume containing the earliest of such records yet discov- 
ered, is this inscription: — 

"A Book of Entrie for Passengers by ye Commission, and Souldiers 
according to the Statuie passing beyond the seas, begun at Christmas, 
1631, and ending at Christmas, 1632." 

On a certain page appears the following: 

"vij Marcij 1631 The names of such men as are to be transported 
to New England to be resident vppon a plantacon, have tendered and taken 
the oath of allegiance according to the statute, vizt," 

Sixteen names then follow and among them appears, 

JOHN LEVINS. 

This was a man then past fifty years of age. He was accompanied 
by his wife Elizabeth. There is no intimation of children, either with 
them or left behind in England. Had they always been childless? Or 
had tliey unhappily lost children? What motive prompts them to loavi- 
Old England for the wilderness of America at their age? They can 
hope for nothing but to be buried and forgotten.* 



•(It may be well to say that we are to see the family name in various spellings. 
It is to be remembered that surnames had come into general and established use in 
England only so late as the period of the Keformation, and that all orthography was 
unsettled at the beginning of the seventeenth century. We shall therefore write 
LEAVENS, the form that became standard, except when quoting, and then we will 
copy the orthography.) 



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The emigrants embarked in the ship "William and Francis," which 
made up a passenger list at London early in 1632. She took on board the 
Rev. Thomas Welde, or Weld, of Terling in Essex, and it is probable that 
others who made the voyage were attached to his ministry. The "William 
and Francis" left London the 9th of March and arrived in Boston harbor 
June 5, 1632. 

We are permitted to look in upon the infart colony, that June day, 
scarcely four years after its birth. The "General Court" was in session 
and was considering the blessings for which to be thankful. It is a strik- 
ing evidence of tlie great thoughts that occupied the minds of those men, 
that, as an historian writes, "especially for the signal victories gained by 
Gustavus Adolphus, in Germany, by which he rescued that country from 
the popish yoke, a thanksgiving was ordered to be celebrated throughout 
all the Plantations." This refers doubtless to the battle of Breitenfeld, 
near Leipsic, fought Sept. 1631; Lutzen in which Gustavus fell was in 
Nov. 1632. 

On the side of affairs closer home we see the initiation of policies 
toward the aborigines. "Some inconvenience had begun to be experienced 
by the colonists from an over-familiarity of the natives, who, under a 
pretense of trade, would intrude at all times and seasons into private 
houses. Therefore at this Court, it was agreed that at every plantation 
should be set up a trucking house. This it was thought would abate the 
difficulty." 

Just at this time there were arrivals from over the sea. The "Charles 
of Barnstaple" came in, bringing about twenty passengers, and also the 
important accession of "near eighty cows and six mares, all safe and in 
health." As we have said, then arrived likewise the "William and Fran- 
cis," Captain Thomas, with about sixty passengers. Among them were 
Mr. Thomas Welde and "old Mr. Stephen Bachelor (minister), being aged 
seventy-one, with their families, and many other honest men." A dis- 
tinguished passenger in tliis voyage was Mr. Edward WinsloAv of Plymouth, 
leturning from a visit to England, and to be Governor of Plymouth the 
next year. So there was high and wise fellowship on Uiat memorable 
passage, wherein our prime ancestor found his way to America. 



JOHN LEAVENS OF NEW ENGLAND. 



JOHN LEAVENS OF NEW ENGLAND. 



John Leavens belonged to the less affluent class of settlers, but by 
no means, we think, to the least prosperous. The rule prevailed that 
he who owned 50 pounds sterling in the stock of the Company drew 200 
acres of land; he who came over 9t his own expense or brought a servant 
was entitled to 50 acres; but John Leavens fell into the list of those who 
acquired less than half a hundred. His parcel was eligibly situated in 
the Roxbury community and has been a landmark distinguished by fame. 

As to the community itself, it is on record that "the Roxbury people 
were the best that came"; they were "not of the poorer sort." Indeed 
"they did enjoy little to be envied, but endured much to be pitied." Yet, 
says a writer, they came to plant not "for worldly ends," but "for spiritual"; 
and they did not repine. 

Almost the first business was to gather a Church. These people had 
broken from the Church of England. Says Mr, Green, the historian, "the 
bitter resentment stirred in the emigrants hj persecution at homo was seen 
in their abolition of episcopacy and their prohibition of the use of the book of 
common prayer." They organis^ed upon a model of their own. John Leavens 
was one of the nineteen men who joined in covenant. The work was 
quickly done, for before July had passed the Rev. Mr. Welde was "chosen 
and was invested with the pastoral care." The Church was not thus 
complete, however, for, according to the notion of these inventive ecclesias- 
tics, a Church needed a "teacher" as well as a "pastor." To the office 
of teacher John Eliot was inducted in November of that year 1G32. 

These two able and remarkable men were liigli prizes for au incipient 
Church to draw. Concerning the settlement of Mr. Welde in Roxbury, 
it is said, "the diligent people thereof early preventing their brethren of 
other Churches by calling him to be their pastor." And Drake's History 
of Boston, referring to the date, Nov. 2, 1G32, says, "Many of the good 
people of Boston were disturbed, about this period, because the reverend 
Mr. John Eliot had made up his mind to leave them and settle at Rox- 
bury. They had intended to 'call' him to bo their teacher, but Roxbury 
had also called him; "and though Boston labored all they could" to prevent 
it, "yet he could not be diverted, so they of Boston dismissed him." 

We can not forbear to look upon these rival sites as they appeared 
to one at the time. Here are certain observations made by a person on 
the ground and written in 1634: — "Boston is two miles north east of 
Roxberry; this situation is very pleasant, being a peninsula, hom'd in ou 
the south side with the bay of Roxberry, on the north side with Chnrles 
River, the mai'shes on the back side, being not halfe a quarter of a mile 



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over: so that a little fencing will secure, their cattle from the woolves. 
Their greatest wants be wood, and medow ground, which never were in that 
place; being constrained to fetch their building timber, and fire wood from 
the illands in boates, and their hay in loyters: It being a necke and bare 
of wood; they are not troubled with three great annoyances; of woolvea, 
rattle-snakes and musketoes. These that live here upon their cattle, must 
l>e constrained to take farmes in the eountrey, or else they can not sub- 
sist: the place being too small to contain many, and fitter for such as can 
trade into England, for such commodities as the eountrey wants, being the 
chief place for shipping and merchandise." 

So rude were the parishes; so great were the ministers; and as to the 
constituent Church members, John Eliot left an enrollment with the fol- 
lowing quaint and honorable title: — 

"A recorde of such as adjoyued themselves unto the 

fellowship of this Church of Christ at 

Roxboj'ough: as f-lso of such children 

as they had when they joyned & of 

such as wer3 borne vnto them 

vnder the holy Covenant of 

this Church, who are 

most pperly the 

seede of this 

Church." 

In this ancient Record we read: — 

"John Leavens he arrived at N. E. in the yeare 1632. his wife lay 
bed-rid divers years, after she dyed he married Rachel write a Godly 
maide a membr of or church: John, his first borne, was borne the last 
of the second month ano 1640." 

First a Church-member, afterward a citizen. On the fourth day of 
March, 1634, the man walked into Bo«ton and took the oath as a free- 
man. The records of Boston preserve the fact, giving the date and writing 
the name, John Levens. A Roxbury record is quoted as saying, "John 
Leavens, or Levinz came in 1632— freeman in 1634." 

But from the moment of arrival there were lands to be cleared; houses 
to be built before the dreaded winter; and plans to be matured for an- 
other year's seeding and future harvests. Roxbury is characterized by an 
early writer, as having been settled by "a laborious people who turned its 
swamps into fruitful fields and planted flocks and herds on its rocky hills." 

John Leavens toiled under obvious disadvantages. At his age it 
could not have been easy to bend to the arduous work of a pioneer. Then 



JOHN LEAVENS OF NEW ENGLAND. 



a "bed-rid" wife lay In his scantily furnished homo, nor was there a child 
to do so much as bring her food. How was that primitive household 
managed? Happily we are able quite precisely to see. The General Court 
attended to business with rigorous formality, and its records have been 
preserved. Picking out the phraseology of entries made in 1635-37, we 
learn that one "Sayles' daughter" had been "put apprentice" to John Cogge- 
shall and pi-oving "overburthensome" to him the Court "thought it just 
to ease him." Meanwhile "the said girl was put by the said Coggeshall 
to one John Levens of Roxberry to be kept at certain" rate or price. Some 
differences had arisen on the account and the wise Court appointed a com- 
mission to adjust the serious matter. The point of interest to us is to see 
how a maid was found for service and to help over the dreary period in 
the house-keeping of pioneer John Leavens. Was it not a brave and 
tender man who could carry so heavy a part as was laid on him? 

Roxbury originated the scheme of a free school, one of the very earliest 
in America. Here is the resolution: — 

"Whereas, the inhabitants of Koxburie, out of the religious care of 
posteritie, have taken into consideration how necessarie the education of 
theire children in literature will be to titt them for publicke service in 
Church and Commonwealthe in succeeding ages. 

"They therefore, unanimously have consented and agreed to erect a 
free school in the said Town of Roxburie and to allow twenty pounds per 
annum to the Schoole master to be raised out of the messuages and part 
of the land of the several donors in several proportions as hereafter fol- 
loweth under these heads." 

They thus voluntarily imposed a rental, which became a lien upon their 
estates. The highest was 1£ 4s., the amount pledged by Mr. Thomas Dud- 
ley, Mr. Thomas W^elde and Mr. John Eliot, each "for the hou^^e he dwells 

in." 

The subscription of John Leavins was 00 03s. 04d., and there signed 

with his name, "Jno. Eliot witness." There were many who put down 
their names for smaller sums. It is said that the rents were collected for 
a hundred years under the original agreement. It was organized by the 
General Court in 1670, and continued until the Incorporation of the Gram- 
mar School in 1789. It is now the flourishing Roxbury Latin School. 

The melancholy event of the death of the wife occurred in 1638. There 
is preserved a record of "Births and burialls in Roxbury from the yoare 
1630 unto the first month 1645". It contains an iMitry in these terms, 

"Elisabeth the wife of John Levins buried 10 (8) 1638." This w.;uld in- 
dicate that on the tenth day of tlie eighth month, which in the "old style" 
would be October, she was laid to rest. There was left in the severe New 
r<]ngland home a childless widower at the age of fifty-seven years. Ix»ss 
than a twelvemonth elapsed before his remarriage. Let us throw our minds 



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back into the pressing conditions of a colony of not yet ten years' stand- 
ing; and let us not judge a man by the rules of easier times. 

On John Eliot's roll of Church-members stands oddly inscribed:— 
"Rachel write a maide servant, she was married to or brothr John Leavins". 

The Eoxbury records note the matrimonial event in these words: — 
John Levins and Rachel Wright were married July 5 1639". A former 
note by the reverend pastor, as we have seen, described the bride as "a 
Godly maide, a membr of or church". Such a tribute at the hand of John 
Eliot is a voucher for character which, in the American mind, should be 
equivalent to a patent of nobility. 

And now let us look upon a fragmentary document which has escaped 

remarkably the destruction of time. Its date is calculated to lie after 

1634 and not later than 1643. It is entitled, 

"A note of 

ye estates and persons of ye inhabitants of Rocksbury." 

A certain line runs as follows, 

"Accres. half ac. Persons and estate. 

11 00 John Levins 3 17 00 00" 

This accredits the man named with eleven acres valued at just 17 
pounds; and there are three persons in his family. It might be inferred 
perhaps that the inventory was taken as late as 1640, after the birth of 
bis first child; but it is not conclusive. On the reverse side of this precious 
sheet, written among his neighbors endowed like himself, appears again 
John Levins, possessor of, 

"8 goats and 8 kidds". 

Presently children began to brighten the renewed home. The afore 
mentioned record of "Births & burialls" says, 

"John the sonne of John Levins borne 27 (2) 1640." That fixes his 
birth at April 27. 

The children arrived rapidly. The Church record of baptisms gives 
us the surest information. It says, 

"1642 month 2 day 24 

Jams the son of John Leavins." 
And then the following, which is unique, 
"1644 month 7 day 15 
Peter Leavins & | Twins, the children of John Leavins 
Andrew Leavins | in the 63 yeare of his aige. 
a doble blessing." 

But the "double 
blessing" was soon marred; for, four months after his baptism, the babe 
Peter was dead and buried. One child more entered the Roxbury home, and 
was baptized, 

"1646 month 6 day 2 

Rachel Leavins the daughter of John Leavins". 



JOHN LEAVENS OF NEW ENGLAND. 



The next year the father went from the world. A record says: — 
"1647 month 9 day 15 John Leveus an ancient godly Christian dyed of a 
dead palsie" 

The necrologist of the times adds, "he lived on the Dorchester road 
where he had a lot of seven acres and a house". 

It would appear that the bit of real estate had been diminished. This 
is substantiated by an act in the General Court: — 

"1648 18 Oct. Upon petition of Rachell Levins, that the pcell of 
ground sould by her husband, John Levins, to Martin Stebbins, & by Mar- 
tin Stebbins to Richard Gardner, «& no writing, may be confirmed to the 
s'd Martin & Rich. Gardner, & his heires wch is granted". 

A few days later the Court had the affairs of the estate again in 
hand and ordered thus: — 

"1648 Oct. 27. In answer to the petitio of Rachell Leuens, of Rox- 
bury, it is ordered, that, according to her request, she shall enjoy the howse 
&• land left her by her late husband (.Toh Leavens) dureing her naturall 
life: findinge the howse & fences in repayre, so to leave them to her chil- 
dren after her decease; and it is also further ordered, that the land sould 
by her sd husband before his death vnto Martin Stoben & since by him 
vnto Richard Gardener, shal be confirmed <& made good vnto the sd Martin 
«& Richard Gardener, & to his assignes for ever. By both." 

In the Probate Office of Boston there is a well-preserved document 
concerning an estate, apparently the sixty-ninth settled in the colony. De- 
ciphered from the quaint handwriting of the arcient time, it reads as fol- 
lows: — 

An Inventory of the goods & Chattells of John Levins of 
Rocksbury deceased taken and apprised by us whose names are under- 
written the thirtyeth day of the sixt Month 1648. 
Imprimis his wearing Apparell linen & woolen 

Itm 3 flock beds 

Itm 2 fether boulsters & 3 other boulsters 

Itra 2 fether pillowos & 3 other pillowes 

Itm 3 blanketts 1 old Cording & Rugg 

Itm 5 paire of sheets 

Itm 3 Iron potts & 1 grt kettle 

Itm 5 brasse gettles 3 skillets & 1 Iron skillet 

Itm 12 peeces of pewter & 4 basons 

Itm Napkines 4 hollow pillowbcers 2 Cotton pillowbeers 

Canvs table cloths & other small linen 

Itm a Muskett sword & bandileers 

Itm a joynd Cubboord table forme & chairs 

Itm 1 Trunk 3 Qhests & 4 boxes 

Itm 1 Cupboord 



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Itm 1 p of brand yrons & 2 trammells & bellows 00 

Itm 5 Axes 5 howes 4 wedges 2 frowes (?) 2 Carfe saws (?) 

1 handsaw, 1 shaye 1 Iron peele (?) 1 p tonges with other 

Irons 

Itm 1 kneading trough 1 new baskett & tubbs 

Itm 1 warming pann & 4 Cushions 

Itm bowles dishes spoones & trenchers 

Itm a new linen wheele (?) 

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Itm a Mattock & a shovell 

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JOHN STOW 
WILLIAM PARK 



THE FAMILY AT ROXBURY. H 

m. 

THE FAMILY AT ROXBURY. 



The fifteen years that John Loaveus spent in the new world, sep- 
arated from his mother country, were a period of wondrous interest. The 
ships constantly arriving with loads of emigrants brought intelligence of 
events at home. Did he not receive it with eager mind? He heard at 
length how the Parliament, famous as the "Long Parliament," began in 
1640 its contest against King Charles; he heard of John Pym, of the im- 
peachment and execution of Stratford, and then of tlie judicial death of 
the aged Archbishop Laud; the doleful tidings of the civil war reached his 
ears, and he heard how John Hampden fell at Edgehill and then of Crom- 
well and the battles of Marston Moor and Naseby. He heard also how 
the Assembly of divines was convened at Westminster to settle the Gov- 
ernment, Liturgy and Doctrine of the Church, and tidings of its slow 
progress came month by month. Perhaps some of the poems of John 
Milton fell under his eye; but those eyes closed finally in the midst of the 
grandest drama of English history. 

In his new sphere this first John Leavens joined in the welcome to 
the host of English people who crossed the sea in one grand throng, as it 
were, to found New England. He lived to see plantations opened nu- 
merously in the forests, and something like orderly living established. He 
was familiar with the Indians, and observed the rise of his pastor's flam- 
ing zeal for their enlightenment and conversion. The Church, the school, 
and the self-governing civil community were started on their career, — a 
career destined to lead to the perfected American Republic, — before this 
weary man fell asleep. He had borne his part. No one of his descendants 
can re-produce him in imagination, considering his age, his sore bereave- 
ments, the infant children hanging on him as their father whon he was 
three score years old, and the little home he had hewed out of the wilder- 
ness, without being touched by the heroism of his character and the 
pathos of his fate. 

The home left by him was like the nest which a mother bird has swung 
upon a bi.sh that overhangs the water, where an unusual tide n)ay en- 
galf it any day, or the sudden blast of a storm may sweep it to ruin; 
where yet it may perchance escape both storm and tide until its fledglings 
fly away to safer shelter. When the widowed Rachel led back her brood 
from the rude grave-yard (why not that ancient cemetery at the corner 
of AVashington St. and Eustis, where one finds the tomb of John EJiot?), 
that chill November day in 1G47, she was not a "Rachel weeping for her 
children," but "comforted" rather because they were. She had great 
things to live for. The eldest of the four was seven years old; the youngest 



12 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



little more than a year. No doubt the winter's store had been laid up 
beforehand by the provident father; and no doubt she measured it out 
with careful hand day by day, then night by night sang her English lulla- 
bies till her babes all slept, at last barred doors and windows against 
maurading Indians, and as for the rest trusted God. 

I can believe that in summer time the passer-by noted at the cottage 
door the wholesome flowers of old England — the peonies, the yellow lilies, 
perhaps the fleur-de-lis; the sweet william and the gay hollyhocks; then the 
asters, the nasturtiums and the trailing morning glory. In the garden be- 
hind, did not the early lettuce grow upon the sunny "banking" and the sage 
and summer savory in their beds; while a little way farther off flourished 
Ihe caraway, needful for the "seed-cake," and the mustard for either condi- 
ment or poultice? And it was glorious if in the May mornings the doves 
cooed in cotes, and the martens sang from the steps of bird-houses, however 
rudely constructed. Any way, we must not forget at all that the domestic 
life hereabouts was old England renewed in every particular possible; and 
Rachel Leavens' heart throbbed with memories! What stories had not she 
with which to entertain her three boys and the tiny girl! 

Year by year they grew. The "8 goats and 8 kidds" of an early day 
had been supplanted by "two Cowes and a heifer"; and if each year there 
were raised some "accres of Corne," it is easy to guess at the daily fare. 
The milk and the bread of rye-and-Indian, the samp and supawn with 
succotash in its season, the fresh vegetables with pork from the "hogges" 
— well, it was good enough diet for the sons of kings. There was a sound 
sense, as well as a sound law, that kept the little estate to the widow 
and her children; for the records of Roxbury through many years describe 
lands bought and sold as bounded on this side or that by the "estate of 
John Levins' heirs." 

There was for these children the free school which their father had 
helped to found, and which their patrimony must help to maintain. And 
there was the rigorous Church, with its stern doctrine and strict discipline. 
And there were the customs of toil and thrift ever an example to their 
youth. We may assure ourselves that it was no stifling atmosphere in 
which they grew to manhood. There had been and still were splendid 
spirits in that Roxbury settlement. 

Look at venerable Thomas Dudley. He had been born at Northamp- 
ton, England, in 1574; his father had perished in battle when he was a 
child; a lad he had been page to the earl of Northumberland; he was 
made a captain by Queen Elizabeth and served in Prance. At the age 
of twenty-five or thereabouts Thomas Dudley had fallen under Puritan 
influences and become deeply religious. Afterward he served as steward 
to the Earl of Lincoln, having charge of his affairs. Then in 1630, at the 
age of fifty-six, he removed to New England. Roxbury was his home. 



THE FAMILY AT ROXBURY. 18 



Three times was he Governor of the Colony, and thirteen times Lieutenant- 
Governor. He served on the most important commissions, and was a fore- 
most man in New England. The second John Leavens was a boy thirteen 
years old when that veteran, whose career spanned the wonderful space 
from Elizabeth to Oliver Cromwell, and bridged the ocean main between 
the old world and the new, gathered up his feet in death at four score 
years. 

The Rev. Thomas Welde had finished his ministry, but the impression 
made by him remained in Roxbury. A native of Essex, England, he had 
taken the degree of A. B. at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1613, followed 
by an A. M. in 1618. We have seen how he became pastor 
at Roxbury in 1634. In 16.39 he assisted Mr. Mather and Mr. Eliot 
in making the tuneful New England version of the Psalms." In 1641 he 
was sent with Mr. Hugh Peters to England as an agent for the province 
and never returned. His service for the colony ended in 1646, and then 
he was settled at Gateshead, England, but was ejected on the restoration 
of Charles II. in 1660, and died the same year. 

After him the leadership of the Roxbury Church devolved upon the 
Rev. John Eliot. He had been born at Widford i pon the Ware, a typical 
English village not far from London, and had received his education at 
Jesus College Cambridge. Not content with the care merely of his intelli- 
gent Church, in 1646 he turned his attention to the Indians. Devising his 
own methods, he set to work and learned their language; he reduced the 
same to writing, translated the Bible, preached, gained converts, organized 
churches of Indians, and set over them teachers of their own race. Re- 
ports of his success were borne back to England and excited deep in- 
terest. Money was raised for him, and a society was organized to afford 
him assistance. It is not too much to say that the great movement of 
Protestant missions received a prime instigation from the wonderful work 
of John Eliot at Roxbury in the period at which we are now pausing. 

While liTe went on amid circumstances thus suggested, we wonder if 
ever an inquiry was sent after the family of John Leavens from kindred 
over the sea. It is impossible to tell. The interest of the English family 
centres in the oldest son, for he is the heir. Those who leave are apt 
to be younger sons, and perhaps younger sons of younger sons. We have 
indeed ample records of a distinguished family in Oxford and vicinity, at 
the period when our John Levins must have been born and bred. It was 
sprung from the famous Levens Hall in Westmoreland, and the name 
undergoes all the variations and transformations that appear in the New 
England records, but we are lot willing to aflSrm the connection of our 
fincestor until we find indisputable proof in the old English records. 

The stem fact is that the isolated household at Roxbury was bred 
to the spare and hardy life of pioneers. It went on till one June day the 



14 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



second John Leavens, who had learned the trade of a carpenter, wedded 
Hannah Wood of Sudbury. It promised relief to a burdened mother and 
a new link in the family chain. Next year a girl child was born and 
with her cry of life the young mother suddenly died. This calamity fell 
Oct. 25, 1666. Meanwhile the eldest son had come to the title of the 
precious estate. It had been settled upon him by act of Court in 1662, 
about the time he came of age. In the year 1670 he sold a parcel of it 
to one Samuel Williams. The deed is extant at full length. 

Afterward John Leavens wandered from Roxbury. James and An- 
drew tarried— tarried against the dawn of a fateful year. 

King Philip's war broke out in 1675. The Colony raised forces in 
an orderly manner. No matter about the details; we probably could not 
recover them, if we were to try. Certain it is that a body of colonial 
soldiers marched straight inland, westward, until they reached Hadley on 
the Connecticut river, then the exposed frontier. Hostilities were precipi- 
tated sooner than anticipated. A fight occurred at Hadley Aug. 25, 1675. 
The Rev. Solomon Stoddard of Northampton wrote of it to the Rev. In- 
crease Mather of Boston, under date Sept. 15, 1675, in the following 
words: — 

"They (the EInglish) intended to parley with the Indians, but on a 
sudden the Indians let fly about forty guns at them, and were soon an- 
swered with a volley from our men; rbout forty ran down into the swamp 
Dfter them, made them throw down much of their baggage, and after a 
-while our men, after the Indian manner, got behind trees and watched 
their opportunity to make shots at them. The fight continued about three 
hours; we lost six men upon the ground, though one was shot in the back 
by one of our men; a second died of his wounds on coming home, and two 
died the next night, nine in all, of nine several towns, every one of these 
toAvns lost a man." 

The names of these nine are preserved and one is "James Levins of 
Roxbury." The utmost obituary we can write (and it deserves to be writ- 
ten) is, 'Born at Roxbury in the year 1642; slain in the service of his coun- 
try by the Indians in a fight at Hadley, Aug. 25, 1675; aged 33 years.' 

Andrew Leavens, like his brother James, served in "King Philip's 
War," and was in the field at Hadley. 

He was one of Roxbury's quota of soldiers. It was a practice that 
each town should assume the payment of its own men, and then should 
be credited the amount on the colonial "rates" or taxes. It had the ad- 
vantage of securing prompt payment, when punctuality was necessary for 
the man or any dependent on him. Now on Aug. 24, 1676, Roxbury- 
town has a credit of 1£ 10s on the account of Andrew livens. 

The man did not return to Roxbury to live. The records show that 
Andrew Levens took the freeman's oath in Hadley, Feb. 8, 1678. He 
settled into the life of this border town, not, however, as a land-holder. 



THE FAMILY AT KOXBUEY. 15 

When the tax-rate of Hadloy for building Fort River bridge was made 
out in 1681, the name of Andrew Leavens appears, paying simply the ix)ll- 
tax of 2s 3d. Again in the tax-rate for town debts, 1687, he pays the 
poll-tax, 2s Id. The tax-payers appear to be enrolled in the order of their 
estates as the town had been originally laid out and allotted. Andrew 
Leavens is inserted next to Capt. Aaron Cooke, Jr. Now the Cookes 
were a famous family of soldiers, and it raises a presumption that Andrew 
followed his predilection for arms. The settlements in tiie Connecticut 
valley had need of military guard in those days. In 1690 Hadley was a 
town able to muster no more than sixty-six men fit for soldiers. The 
perils of the situation on the frontier toward the Indians and the French 
were very great. Here the man passed his days. The genealogical records 
of Hadley put down Andrew Leavens as dying Feb. 19, 1698, and it 
does not appear that he left kith or kin by descent, or even that he was 
married. We may simply write — 'Born at Roxbury in 1644; a soldier; 
died at Hadley 1698; aged 53 years.' 

FAMILY NO. 1. 

JOHN LEAVENS, b. in England, perhaps 1581: ra. Elisabeth : 

reached New Eng. June 5, 1632, and settled in Roxbury: d. Nov. 
15, 1647. 

ELISABETH, b. in England: reached New Eng. with her husband: d. or 
was bur. Oct. 10, 1638. 

Afterward he m. (2) Rachel Wright. 
RACHEL, b. in Eng.: d. ? 

Their children all b. at Roxbury: — 
John, b. Apr. 27 1640: 
James, b, Oct. 16 1642: d. Aug. 25 1675. 
Peter, b. Sept. 11 1644: buried Jan 15 1645. 
Andrew, b. Sept. 11 1644: d. Feb. 19 1698. 
Rachel, b. Aug. 1646. 



16 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



IV, 
FROM ROXBURY TO WOODSTOCK. 



The preservation of the family name now depended upon the second 
John Leavens. He had become a widower in 1666, and wandered from 
Eoxbury. He re-appeared in Stratford, Conn. The records of that town 
contain this entry— "Whereas John Wheeler hath let his accommodations 
in Stratford unto John Levens, and presenting his desire to ye town, this 
first January 1674, that the said Levens be accepted, presenting also a 
certificate of his blameless conversation according to law; the town voted 
and consented the same day to his admittance as tenant." 

Before the expiration of that year, he, being now 34 years old, was 
married to Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Preston, a maiden of nineteen 
years. 

And here we ought to fix definitely the standing of this interesting 
bride. 

Her grandfather, William Preston, came in the year 1635 to America 
from England. He owned an estate in Yorkshire in the western part 
of the West Riding. Savage (Genealogical Dictionary, Vol. 3, p. 482) 
conjectures that he may have sent forward his sons Edward and Daniel 
in the "Christian," the first ship of the year 1635. Himself with his 
wife, Mary, and three girl children came over in the "Truelove," the 
latest of the seventeen ships of that year. He settled at Dorchester, but 
remained not long. He had been born in the year 1591 and was there- 
fore at the age of 44 years. He removed to New Haven in season to be 
among the first subscribers to the compact in 1639. His will is dated 
July 9, 1647. He bequeaths one fourth of his estate in England to his sur- 
viving wife and three fourths to the children of his first wife. He and 
his wife are enrolled in the New Haven Church. 

Among the heirs to the English property appears the son, Edward 
Preston. He had been born in the year 1622 and had come over at the 
age of thirteen years. His wife was Margaret, but we do not find the date 
or place of the marriage. He is sometimes alluded to as a "mariner." 
The records show their children, to wit: 

Hannah, b. Sept. 14 1653: d. May 1669. 

ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 29 1655: 
Abigail, b. Jan. 1644: m. Joseph Thomas March 21 1687 8. 

Samuel, b. June 1668: 

"An inventory of the estate of Edward Preston late of New Haven, 
dec'd, was exhibited in Court and approved for record." This entry is as 
late as Nov. 13, KJOO. 



FROM ROXBURY TO WOODSTOCK. 17 

The marriage records of New Haveu show (p. G2) that "Elizabeth 
dau. of Edward Preston married John Levins Nov. 23 1G74." 
This fact most happily re-establishes the family succession. 

The records of Stratford give the family of John & Elizabeth Levens, 
to wit, 

James, b. Dec. 9 1675 

Peter, b. Nov. 9 1677 

James, b. Oct. 24 1679. 

In another place we read, "James Levens son of John died Apr. 23 
1678." 

We infer that the first horn of this household received the name of 
his father's brother, who had fallen in the Indian fight at Hadley four 
months before the birth; but he died when two and a half years old, and 
then the name was conferred on the child born next after his death. 

But his interests drew John Leavens back to Roxbury about the year 
16S0. There was the patrimonial estate which had passed to him as 
frldest son; James had perished, and Andrew wasi absent in Hadley; if 
the mother survived, she was advancing in years. So in Roxbury his 
fourth child was born in 1681. There he joined the Church. The record 
has it, 

"1684 month 4 day 22", **"were received to take hold on the covenant", 
eight persons, of whom one is John Leavens. Such is their way of ex- 
pressing the £>ct, and we notice, as the eye runs down the page, another 
entry that may as well be put in sight here: — 

"1685 month 2 day 5", among others Peter Aspinwall "took hold on 
the covenant." He will come into the thread of this story significantly 
one day. 

But Roxbury is growing old, indeed Roxbury is becoming crowded. 
The disposition to push into the wilderness and establish new settlements— 
the beginning of the westward tendency, which has not spent its force in 
two centuries — has seized the people. The scene of our history is to change. 
In the year 1683 the town of Roxbury accepted from the government of 
Massachusetts the grant of a tract seven miles square at Quatasset, in 
the country of the Nipmucks. It was one of the conditions "that thirty 
families should be settled on said plantation within three years and main- 
tain among them an able and godly minister." Roxbury was now divided 
into "stayers" and "goers." John Leavens joined the latter class, and h? 
seems to have joined it so effectively as to instigate his posterity to this 
day. They have been such incessant "goers" from place to place as to 
lay a heavy burden on their historian to trace them. It is too late to 
question the wisdom of John Leavens' movo, but there was a good deal at 
stake either way. 



18 THE LEAVENS NAME. 

The proposed plantation lay some eighty miles distant, in the vicinity 
of bands of Eliot's "praying Indians," and was to be reached by a route 
^ great part of which was wildnerness almost pathless. The advance 
guard of thirteen prospectors set forth early in April, 1686. The emigrant 
train was ready to follow later in the summer. Let him conceive that 
journey who has a lively imagination. There were fine New England family 
names in the party,— Bacon, Sabin, Bowen, Lyon, Morris, Chandler, Hub- 
bard. Davis, Johnson and others. "These colonists were all men of good 
jwsition and character, connected with the best families of Roxbury." 
John Leavens was among them with his household. There is his twenty- 
year-old daughter, whom Jonathan Peake is going to claim as a wife. 
Then there are the three rugged boys and a girl babe in arms, children of 
Elizabeth, the present wife. 

Arrived upon the scene, a lodgement effected Aug., 1686, and their 
land surveyed, it was necessary to distribute the parcels. This is the way,— 
"After solemn prayer to God Who is the disposer of all things, they drew 
lots according to the agreement, every man being satisfied and contented 
with God's disposing, and were settled as follows;" — 

John Leavens was number twenty-five. He was entitled to a lot of 
twenty acres, but for some good reason he consented to take it in two 
parts, fourteen and six acres respectively. In consideration of this incon- 
venience his acreage was enlarged a bit. Then he had certain "rights" 
in land beyond the sphere described as "home" lots. The business was 
managed with a scrupulous regard to equity, and the record of the trans- 
action is extant to this day. There were thirty-eight proprietors in this 

new settlement. 

We think John Leavens must have re-visited the old home the next 
year, for the precious estate in Roxbury seems to have been sold in 1687. 
It went to Mr. Joseph Warren of Boston. And we will not have a place 
more convenient than here to tell something of its subsequent fortunes. An 
angle (sold as we have seen by the first proprietor) is said to have become 
the garden and nursery of Peter Gardiner, and to have been long known 
as Gardiner's Green. Another remnant had already been sold by the son. 
What now went from the family became the Warren estate. Mr. Warreu 
built a mansion in 1720, as we understand, on the site of the original 
Leavens home. It was substantial and commodious and stood on what 
>s now Warren street, then near the centre of the principal village. A 
»ater Joseph Warren married a Stevens and occupied the place. He is 
described as a "farmer who was highly respected, led an exemplary life, and 
held several municipal offices to the acceptance of his townsmen." He 
paid much attention to fruit-raising and introduced into the neighborhood 
of Boston the apple denominated for him the "Warren (or Roxbury) rus- 
set." But he paid a costly price for his predilection. One day, about the 
year 1755, while in the orchard gathering fruit, he fell from the ladder 



FROM ROXBURY TO WOODSTOCK. 19 

on which he was mounted and was killed by breaking his neck. The 
youngest boy "had been sent by his mother to call his father to dinner, 
and met the body as two laborers were bringing it to the house." There 
were four sons left in that bouse, and two rose to very high distinction. 
The oldest became Gen. Joseph Warren, patriot. He fell in the battle 
of Bunker Hill, one of the earliest and saddest casualties of the Revolu- 
tion. The youngest, John Warren, was a high medical ofBcer, subpcribing 
himself as "General Surgeon of the Continental Army," immediately under 
Washington. After the War he attained eminence in his profession. On 
the site of that Warren mansion, which had displaced the early Leavens 
home, stands now a modern house built of stone, which bears two in- 
scriptions on the front of the second story. One of them reads: — 

"On this site stood the house erected in 1720, by Joseph Warren of 
Boston, remarkable for being the birth-place of General Joseph Warren, 
his grand-son, who was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill June 17 1775". 

The other reads: — 

"John W^arren, a distinguished physician and anatomist was also 
born here. The original mansion being in ruins, this house was built by 
John C. Warren M. D., as a memorial of the spot". 

John Leavens, the second, left something indeed when he quitted that 
Roxbury estate, for it is now fine city realty far within the limits of 
Boston. We are happy to think of it as so memorably identified. He 
took the trifle it brought him and went to a new start in the wilderness. 
Again then we are to witness the hardy life of a pioneer; and that, too, 
for a man at an age when he should have been lightening his labors ra- 
ther than taking on new burdens. The new town obtained the namo 
Woodstock; it is the famous Woodstock, Conn. Our settler seems to have 
borne at least a modest share in affairs. In 1690 he was one of the select- 
men, in whose hands was placed "the whole power of the town excepting 
granting lands and admitting inhabitants". In Oct., 1691, he was at the 
head of a committee for building a meeting-house "with power to let out 
the work and improve men to work on the same." 

There were serious troubles with the Indians during the first decade 
of Woodstock. Whenever there was war between France and England 
ia Europe, it produced irritation between the French of Canada and the 
English of New England, and set the intervening Indians on the war- 
path. This was the period of hostilities which ensued from the dethroning 
of James II. We will do well to notice two men who were especially 
vigilant and active in the defense of Woodstock. One is Peter Aspinwall, 
now Lieutenant in command of a military company and an authorized 
scout against the Indians. Another is Capt. John Sabin, a bold and enter- 
prising pioneer, who had come from Rehoboth in 1691 and established his 
family in a fortified house a considerable distance to the south of the 



20 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



Woodstock settlement. He acquired great influence and control over the 
Wabaquassetts. 

The most alarming disturbances arose in the summer of 1696. Hostile 
Indians were at the very doors of the settlers, and it was necessary to rely 
in part on friendly Indians for protection. The minister, Mr. Dwight, 
exhorted and encouraged the people; Lieut. Aspinwall was doubly watch- 
ful; Capt. Sabin displayed his best skill and energy. And yet not a few 
colonists withdrew for safety into tl.e older towns. The General Assembly 
ordered in Oct., 1696, "That Woodstock be accounted a frontier and com- 
prehended within an Act to prevent the deserting of the frontier." In- 
habitants were thus prohibited from leaving without special license. Now 
in the stress of this acute trial John Leavens succumbed to the inevitable. 
He died Oct., 1696. 

Look into his house and see the stalwart lads, Peter at 19 years; 
James at 17; Joseph at 13; Benjamin, a Woodstock child, at four years of 
age; and on the other side, Rachel, a girl of eleven years, and Mehitable, 
a babe of eight months — choice material no doubt for an Indian massacre, 
yet better far to be spared as the foundation of a wide-spread American 
family. And here follows: — 

An "Inventory of ye estate of Jno. Leavens, late of Woodstock, de- 
ceased, 

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The house and homestead. 

Rights and divisions of land. 

Cattle horses and swine. 

Bedding and furniture. 

Iron, pewter, brass and Gun, 

Tools and tackling, 

Lumber, 

Books, 

Corn & Flax & yarn, 

Money, 



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Apprised ye 15th Oct. 1696. 
Benjamin Sabin, 
John Carpenter, 
John Chandler Jun. 

Elisabeth Levins, Widow. 



FROM ROXBURY TO WOODSTOCK. 21 



FAMILY NO. 2. 

JOHN LEAVENS (John) m. Hannah Wood. June 17 1665; d. Oct. 16 

1696, at Woodstock (now) Conn. 
HANNAH, dau. of John Wood of Sudbury; d. Oct. 25 1666. 

Their child, at Roxbury, 
Hannah, b. Oct. 17 1666; m. Jonathan Peake of Woodstock. 

He m. (2) Elisabetli Preston, daughter of Edward Preston, of New 
Haven, Conn., Nov. 23 1674. 

ELISABETH, b. at New Haven, Sept. 29 1655; d. at Killingly, date un- 
known. 

Their children, at Stratford, 
James, b. Dec. 9 1675: d. Apr. 23 1678. 
Peter, b. Nov. 15 1677: 
James, b. Oct. 14 1679: 

at Roxbury, 
John, b. Dec. 10 1681: d. young. 
Joseph, b. Nov. 15 1683: 
Rachel, b. Dec. 10 1685; m. Thomas Brown. 

at Woodstock, 
Benjamin, b. Apr. 10 1692: 
Mehitable, b. Feb. 3 1696: m. James Wilson Jr. Nov. 17 1718. 

The widow m. Peter Aspinwtill, Mar. 24 1698, 9, A daughter was their 
only child. 



22 THE LEAVENS NAME. 

FOUR KILLINGLY FAMILIES. 



Our history lies in extremely serious age. And yet it is uot dying of 
gravity, if the Rev. Mr. Dwight of Woodstock may be regarded as illus- 
trating its humor. What finer drollery than his saying in a sermon — "If 
unconverted men ever got to heaven they would feel as uneasy as a shad 
up the crotch of a white oak." It was indeed a century and a half too 
early for that genial philosopher, Mr. Weller, with his famous caution, 
"Samivell, bevare of the vidders," but could anything be funnier in fact 
than that lieut. Peter Aspinwall should come forward to marry Elisabeth 
Leavens! He actually did so March 24, 1099, and we should dearly like to 
have heard the dry comments of Parson Dwight when he tied the knot. 

But it seems to us needlessly petulant that the relatives and friends 
(we can hardly say posterity) of the mature bridegroom should have 
persisted in discontentment about it. As far back as 1767 one of them 
wrote:— 

"Peter, the son of Peter, was settled at Woodstock and married a 
widow with a large number of children ****they and she always kept 
him low: he had by her one daughter and she married a Bateman and had 
a son and several daughters, said Peter was a meek and sensible man 
and a Deacon." 

This might pass, but quite lately the compiler of the Aspinwall Rec- 
ords brings out a shadow on Elizabeth, apparently in order to heighten the 
lustre of Peter. It appears that during her short residence in Massa- 
chusetts she incurred the displeasure of the authorities by expressing her 
mind too freely, and suffered a reprimand from the courts. Thereupon 
the inference is drawn that "Peter Aspinwall's wife was not so meek as 
her husband." 

Tais Peter Aspinwall was son of a preceding Peter, and born in 
Muddy Brook (now Brookline, adjacent to Roxbury) June 4, 1664. He 
"took hold on the covenant," in the Church at Roxbury, as we have al- 
ready seen, and came out with the pioneers of Woodstock, a young man of 
twenty-two years. He lived in continual contact with the family of John 
Leavens while that fellow-citizen and fellow Church member survived, 
and he looked upon the fatherless household two and a half years there- 
after, before he ventured upon matrimony. He had a chance to know 
what he was about, and he had reached the mature age of thirty-five years. 
He was a man of versatile genius. He could command a company of 
raw soldiers; he could pull a trigger on a skulking Indian; he could drive 
R sharp bargain in wild lands; he could lay out a new road or bridge a 



FOUR KILLINGLY FAMILIES. 23 



river; he could represent the town in the legislature; and, after all, he 
could come home and play the part of a "meek and sensible man and be 
a Deacon." We admire him for it; and we are not disposed to do him the 
disrespect to presume that ha could not discern what would be for his 
interest and his happiness in marrying. 

Whatever were Elisabeth Leavens' troubles in the tribunals that ante- 
dated the Suffolk County Court may not now be cleared up. It may have 
been to the credit of her Connecticut blood that she rebelled against the 
rigor of some Massachusetts prescription. Not a few persons suffered 
undeservedly for transgressing laws of that crotchety colony. But she 
had her revenge. In the very year after they stigmatized her, she went 
out with honor in the company that settled Woodstock. The day came 
when all the inhabitants of that spirited town were "rayling" against 
Massachusetts, and they called in a son of that same Elisabeth Leavens 
to help them break from the jurisdiction and go over to the colony which 
was hers by birthright. Outshining facts are these — that she sprang from 
a wholesome community, was born in a well-to-do and enterprising family 
and was wedded to John Leavens after he had passed the scrutiny of the 
townsmen where he chose to live; that she was his wife through toilsome 
years in her Connecticut home and afterward in his old home in Rox- 
bury; that she followed him and shared his fortunes in the cew home in 
the wilderness; tliat she sheltered the daughter of his former wife; that 
she brought into life six sons and two daughters, laid two in the grave 
and reared the rest to manhood and womanhood fitted to be tlie heads 
of strong lines of posterity; that she followed also a second husband into a 
fresh wilderness, bore to him the only child he ever had, and kept his 
hospitable home while he gained in old Killiugly that reputation unto 
which the records of the town and state bear witness. We propose to 
honor her memory in this narrative as "the mother of us all." The New 
Haven child, the Stratford bride, the Roxbury woman, the Woodstock 
matron, among the very first of the gracious host of home-makers in Kill- 
ingly — blessed be her name! 

To the east, or south-east, from Woodstock lay a rough country ex- 
tending to the Rhode Island line, and watered by the Quinebaug river and 
its affluents. Certain patents and grants of lands had been made to non- 
residents and were located her'^abouts. Now, at an early day Peter 
Aspinwall had been employed by the Woodstock authorities "to lay out 
a road to the Quinebaug, where it may be most convenient to make a 
bridge, and lay out a road to Providence." In other ways it was a 
f.eld for adventure. Its p'ue forests yielded a supply of turpentine, for 
which there was a sale at the country store of James Corbm in Wood- 
stock. Indeed the young men, James Leavens at the age of twenty, and 
Joseph at seventeen, were employed by Corbiu in gathering the product 



24 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



about the year 1700 upon the tract in question. And here falls the oc- 
currence wliich went down the Leavens family by tradition for genera- 
tions. It is related by Miss Larned:— "The younger brother, Joseph, on 
one occasion strayed off alone, and, while felling a tree, was suddenly 
struck and wounded on the thumb by one of the original proprietors of 
the soil, a venemous rattlesnake. No help was near, the young man was 
in imminent danger, but with great coolness and presence of mind he 
hacked off the bitten thumb with his axe and then dispatched his as- 
sailant." "His peculiar chirography," adds the writer, "corroborates the 
truth of this legend, as also the sobriquet, 'Old One Thumb,' afterward 
given him by the Indians." 

Meanwhile Lieut. Aspinwall had become deeply interested in the new 
country. The Leavens estate in Woodstock was sold to John Childs (it is 
now in the possession of the Woodstock Agricultural Society, and is part 
of their Fair Grounds), and the whole Aspinwall-Leavens combination 
was transferred, becoming thus among the foremost settlers of Aspinock, 
as the region was called. Thty lighted upon a choice location therein and 
set up a home. It is noticeable that fine lands in the neighborhood fell 
into the thrifty hands of Capt. John Sabin of Pomfret. Step-father Aspin- 
wall was not long troubled with the older Leavens' sons. Peter and James 
were already of age. They fixed upon lands in the vicinity and soon had 
wives. The others delayed marriage; and we embrace the opportunity to 
observe some of the prominent families as they arrive and take up es- 
tate.s. There is Jonathan Eatjn, locating eligibly between the Quiuebaug 
and the Mill rivers. The Cadys from Groton, Mass., get good places. 
Land traffic grows lively, and nobody knows affairs better than Lieut. 
Aspinwall. James Leavens goes into the speculation, even to the venture 
of a saw-mill near the Rhode Island line — and a saw-mill is a prime in- 
stitution in a new country. David Church settles near James Leavens. 
Capt. Sampson Howe is an important arrival, but he sits down farther 
north. The Cutlers, who come from Cambridge, are a most significant 
addition to the Killingly population, and they buy land upon "the advice 
of James and Joseph Leavens." 

In the year 1707 a town organization was authorized by the General 
Assembly of Connecticut. The south boundary was Plainfield; the east 
Rhode Island, but the north supplied a bone for long contention. The 
territory covered was the north-east corner of Connecticut. Grantees took 
up their land, and at the end of 1709 thirty families were to be counted. 
Among the proprietors were Peter Leavens, James Leavens and Joseph 
Leavens, and we note, besides names already mentioned, John Chandler, 
James Danielson, Ephraim Warren, George Blanchard and numerous Al- 
iens. In the course of the charter runs this sentence: — "And this Assembly 
desires the Hon Governour to commissionate Lt. Aspinall or some other 
suitable person to train and command the souldiers in the said town- 



FOUR KILLINGLY FAMILIES. 25 

bhip, and to give a name to said town, and also to appoint the figure of 
a brand for their horses." Doubtless the worthy man suggested was 
pdequate to these incongruous duties. At any rate, the town got the 
name Killingly. 

(1.) 

We have peered into the darkness to distinguish the family of the 
first Peter Leavens. His wife was Patience, but what else we know not. 
He had many dealings in wild lands; his home was in the Quiuebaug 
valley, and there the story vanished. But we have found the trail at last. 
The settlement of his estate is on the records of the Probate Office in 
New London. First, "Memorandum. Peter Levens dyed Feb. 7 1708 9." 
Then "in inventory of his estate, "proved accepted and ordered to be 
recorded." Here for curiosity is the inventory, "as followeth, in or as 

money": — 

f 8. d. 

"Imprimis, The house and homestead, containing near 100 

acres of land 30 00 00 

Item 30 acres of land lying on the plain and middle Entervail 20 00 

Item, 33 acres of land on Rattle Snake hill. 

Item. 40 acres of second division land in Woodstock, 

Item. 3 acres of meadow in Woodstock near Jonath Peak 

Item. The undivided land in Woodstock, being a 20 acre right 

Arms and Aparel 

t cows 4 Stears 3 heifers a Calfe 2 sheep & 2 Iambs, an old 

horse and eight swine 28 18 00 

A Bed bedstead and furniture with 9 yards of Woolen cloth at 

5 per yard 8 05 00 

Pewter, Brass, Iron ware & Iron tools. Chairs, Tubs, Chest 

and other Lumber 1 1^ ^^ 

Debts due to the estate, 14 15 11 

146 10 11 

"Left a Widdow and 2 small children, a son Peter about Ij^ years old, 

a Daughter Hester about Sj/^ years old very neady". 

Due from the estate 

f s. d. 

To James Leavens, 1 1^ ^° 
To 4 of the children of John Leavens late of Woodstock, de- 
ceased, by reason of which the land in Woodstock is put 
into this Inventory— to each G£. 24 00 00 
Funerale charges, 1 01 00 
To Mr. Joseph Whipple, 6 05 08 
To Richard Clomence, 3 13 00 
To Joseph Cady, 1 00 00 



20 


00 


00 


6 


13 


04 


15 


00 


00 


3 


00 


00 





00 


00 


7 


13 


10 



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Dribbling debts the sums not known yet. 

Patience Leavens, "widow and Relict," appeared in Court of Pro- 
bate June 8, 1709, "and made solemn oath that she gave to the appraizers 
a true presentment of the estate of her deceased husband according to the 
best of her knowledge and if any thing further appears to be his estate 
it shall be added to this inventory." Thereupon she received power of ad- 
ministration "on his Goods Chattels and Credits", filing her bond, with 
Obadiah Johnson as surety, in the sum of £100. All this indicates a dis- 
astrous rupture of the family of the first born of the four Leavens broth- 
ers. He had died at the age of 32. 

(2.) 

Of James Leavens, Miss Larned writes:— "a youth of much enterprise, 
collecting turpentine from Killingly forests for Woodstock tradesmen. A 
deposition from him refers to forty barrells of tar for James Corbin. He 
was thus enabled to purchase many land grants, which he sold to ad- 
vantage. He secured a mill privilege on the Asawaga, or Five Mile river, 
in the east end of the town and ran a flourishing saw-mill. John May, one 
of the first settlers of North Woodstock, buys boards for his house of James 
Leavens in 1711. He was much employed in the land transactions of Kill- 
ingly, laying out land for the minister and serving on the town committee. 
He was a constituent member of the Church organized in 1715, bringing 
a letter from the Woodstock Church." 

We see his marriage distinctly. He took a wife from the Woodstock 
family of Chamberlain; but the children are not explicitly on record. We 
give them according to the best opinion to be formed. "He deeds a valu- 
able farm to John Leavens with the dwelling-house and barn on the west 
bank of Five Mile river in 1732," and the inference is that John is his 
son, afterward a very important man. "No record has been found of the 
death of James Leavens and wife, or of the distribution of his estate. He 
probably died soon after 1744." 

(3.) 

As to the third brother we walk on sure ground. Let us consider 
ourselves invited to a Puritan wedding of the olden time. Joseph Leavens 
has made his courtship at the sumptuous home of Major John Sabin in 
Pomfret. John Sabin (son of William) lived originally in Rehoboth. There 
he married, Dec. 3, 1689, Sarah, daughter of Samuel Peck. Judith, their 
eldest child and only daughter, was born in Rehoboth, Aug. 26, 1G90. In 
1691 they removed to the region which became Pomfret. John Sabin 
was "a bold and active pioneer"; a "leading military spirit," and his ser- 
vices were acknowledged by the colonial governments. Until 1715 his Church 
connections were in Woodstock. He had three sons born in Pomfret, 
namely, Hezekiah, John and Noah. The mother died Oct., 1738, and Major 
Sabin died Oct. 25, 1742. Joseph Leavens had found the way to their 
home, and at the very proper age of 24 had won the consent of Judith 



POUR KILLINGLY FAMILIES. 27 

Sabin, though she could have been hardly 18 years of age. Miss Larued 
shall tell us of her: — 

"Our first glimpse of Judith Sabin is as a small infant in her mother's 
arms en route for Connecticut in 1690. After a wearisome journey through 
the wilderness, they reach the .swollen Quinebaug at night-fall, and the 
tired mother 'gave up,' woman fashion, and refused to cross the formidable 
stream. John Sabin was too wise a man to argue with a tired woman, but 
solved the problem with one skillful stroke. Snatching tlie little Judith 
from the mother's arms, he dashed through the fording-place to the opposite 
bank, and the wife was ready enough to follow." 

It would be a delightful exeicise to let fancy loose to handle the 
ascertainable customs of those primaeval days and re-construct the wed- 
ding-day; but we forbear. The fact is that a valuable farm not far from 
the Aspinwall-Leavens home went with the bride. We used to think it 
must have been a task to clear it, but we learn that tlie Indians had 
burned it over for their rude tillage, so that it was partly in condition. 
Here Joseph Leavens set up the estate, which has been the one continuous 
Leavens home in Killingly to this day. A great family sprang up around 

these worthy parents. 

(4.) 

The fourth son was a Benjamin indeed. He was but seven or eight 
when the migration to Aspinock occurred. At tlie age of 23 he made a 
huppy marriage alliance in the family of David Church. This early settler 
had bought lands of the elder Leavens brothers, and now he gives Benjamin 
a farm beside them. There is the appearance of energy and promise in the 
outstart, but unfortunately this Benjamin (the very first of that innum- 
erably repeated name) is taken away early. 

He died in 1724, a man only 32 years of age. On the first day of 
October of that year the Court of Probate at Lebanon granted letters of 
administration to Ellizabeth Levins, widow. The sureties in her bond of 
£500 were James and Joseph, her husband's surviving brothers. The in- 
ventory was presented and accepted. There were four children. Before 
the administratrix was ready to present her account she had become by 
a re-marriage Elizabeth Horsmor. The account was received in 1727, and 
Bubsequent records show that the children were well cared for. 

There was a time, say beti\-een 1715 and 1720, when there were four 
Leavens families counted in the rude houses of primitive Killingly. That 
of Peter had become fatherless by his decease; that of James was not uu- 
numerous perhaps; that of Joseph was increasing rapidly, and that of 
Benjamin was only begun. The river that had flowed out of Roxbury into 
Woodstock here "parted and became four heads." From these four head- 
springs proceed all the Leavens people in America who can claim colonial 
origin from New England. But how meagre was the development of the 
family in the one hundred years from the day when the first John Leaveus 
landed at Boston, the cwntury from 1632 to 1732! 



28 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



VI. 

PRIMITIVE DAYS IN KILLINGLY. 



Killingly once organized became sovereign of her lands, but had no 
meeting-house or minister. Between selling the lands, building the meet- 
ing-house and calling the minis<^er, there was going to be a good deal of 
public business and great opportunity for town-meeting statesmanship. 
First of all Lieut. Aspinwall obtains from the legislature of the colony 
authority to tax the lands of non-iesident owners for reUgious purposes. 
Then the town agreed to give Mr. John Fiske 350 acres of land "for his 
encouragement to settle in the ministry," (no small encouragement, it seems 
to us), and James Leavens and Sampson Howe are appointed to lay it out. 
This was in 1711. 

Settlers were coming along, and we notice Ebenezer Knight and John 
Green around Chestnut Hill; in another direction John Hutchins; and in 
the northern part, the important arrivals of William Larned from Framing- 
ham and Samuel Converse from Woburn. There comes also Simon Bryant 
from Braintree, fore-handed of money and with a houseful of daughters. 
James Wilson and Samuel Lee introduce new family names. 

Now arises a question which will convulse many a town meeting and 
worry the General Court. The line between Connecticut and Massachusetts 
had been pushed by a new survey farther north than theretofore assumed. 
Query, therefore— does Killiugly-town stretch on to overtake it, or does 
the gain of territory accrue to the advantage of the Colony, to be disposed 
of by the General Court? Killingly naturally asserted jurisdiction, for it 
lay in her way; but Peter AspinwaU had to answer for it when he went to 
the legislature as the first town-representative, or "deputy," in 1713. The 
Colony then commanded Killingly to draw her north line parallel to her 
south and nine miles distant. The town insisted on going to the new 
Massachusetts line, which was fifteen miles or more from her Plainfield 
boundary. 

Pendmg these disputes, the meeting-house was built, and Peter Aspin- 
wall and Simon Bryant carried to the Assembly a devout request for 
Church organization, the supplication ending magniloquently thus:— 

"We therefore your humble petitioners, affectionately pray this Great 
and General Court in their great wisdom and extensive benignity to exert 
their authority for our benefit as the law directs, by passing an act that 
the brethren in full communion among us may enjoy the leave and ap- 
probation of this honorable Assembly for embodying into church estate, 
that so a gospel candle-stick may be erected in the fields of the wood, with 
a burning and shining light fixt in it, to the glory of our ascended Lord 

and for the comfort and edification of ourselves and lastest posterity, 

Which good work we have appointed (God's gracious providence permitting) 
to accomplish very speedily." 



PRIMITIVE DAYS IN KILLINGLY. 29 



Such an appeal was surely irresistible, and the Church was organized 
Oct. 19, 1715. 

Peter Aspinwall and Elisabeth, his wife, brought credentials from the 
Church of Woodstock, so did James Leavens and wife; others brought let- 
ters from churches in ^lassachusetts, and we notice the name of Stephen 
Grover, admitted on examination. The little Church grew. Hero is where 
Peter Aspinwall attained the honor of deacon; Eleazer Bateman was his 
associate in office. Joseph Leavens and his family must have joined the 
Church on examination, the first year, for in one day, July 22, 1716, he 
led five children to the baptismal font to dedicate them unto God. And, 
mark it, the wedlock of Hannah Bryant, daughter of Simon Bryant, to 
William Larned was the first marriage. 

There was a distribution of the public lands in 1721. Nothing can 
be done without Peter Aspinwall. He, James Leavens and Joseph Cady 
are the committee in charge of the ticklish business, and there are eighty 
proprietors to satisfy. Society multiplies institutions. There must needs 
be a "train-band"; and it is high time for a burying-ground. Peter Aspin- 
wall gives the latter; he has been justice of the peace since 1716. 

Here is an incident in the Colonial Assembly. In 1723 there appears 
a "petition of the Trustees of Yale College versus James Levinz, and 
versus John Fisk." In 1725 there turns up a counter-petition of John 
Fisk and James Levinz, which shows how they purchased grants that 
"through ignorance and mistake" "happened to be laid" on tracts to which 
Y'ale College maintained a title. The petitioners were permitted to "take 
up" equivalent land elsewhere. Here is another dated May, 1726. "Upon 
consideration had in this Assembly of the pleas offered in abatement of 
the petition of Paul Dudley, Saml! Morrice &c. v. Joseph Levens, Joseph 
Cady, proprietors of Killingly: The question was put whether such pleas 
were sufficient to abate the same: Resolved in the affirmative. Cost al- 
lowed said Levens and Cady is fl 02s. 4d." All this probably refers to 
the remonstrance of residents in the disputed lands to the northwards 
against the pretensions of Killingly to govern them. We must keep an 
eye on that interesting territory. Settlers slowly sift in. Besides names 
already quoted, we greet the emigrant train of Samuel Morris from Marl- 
borough, Samuel Davis, the Horsmors who buy of Leavens and Acpin- 
wall; and then Hezekiah Sabin, brother-in-law of Joseph Leavens, moves 
over from Pomfret and becomes the pioneer on Quinnatisset, now Thomp- 
son Hill. Other settlers are Bixby, Wiley, Joslyn, Upham and more. 

By this time Joseph Leavens has become a prominent figure in the 
affairs of Killingly. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Wind- 
ham County by the Assembly, of 1725, and was re-appointed year after 
year for a long period. Among his many duties, he assisted in settling 
the affairs of Pomfret. This sister town lies immediately west of Killing- 



30 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



ly. Included in her men are found the Sabins, Samuel Perrin, Daniel 
Waldo, the Williams's, and such names as Weld, Adams, Whiting, Dana, 
Cheney, Cleaveland and more of familiar sound. Ready to constitute 
themselves more perfectly a town, they engage Justice Joseph Leavens 
to "warn" the meeting of "proprietors," to be held Mar. 6, 1726, "at the 
school house near the sign post." The new Justice comes over to the 
meeting, of which Major Sabin is made moderator; and no doubt the 
veteran takes pride in seeing his son-in-law "swear in" the town-clerk and 
thus sanction by the authority of the General Court of Connecticut the 
government of a new town. 

Joseph Leavens represented Killingly in the General Assembly of 
1726, again in 1728 and for fire consecutive years. James Leavens was 
one of the two "deputies" in each of the next three years, 1733 to 35. 
Then Joseph takes the oflBce three years, from 1737 to 39, inclusive. 

That colony land north of Killingly is ever restless. Again in 1727 
there appears before the General Court a petition for town-organization; 
and again Joseph Leavens and Joseph Cady successfully resist it. But 
leave is granted to the inhabitants to embody as a distinct society, or 
precinct. Justice Joseph Leavens is to warn the meeting, and now we 
get a specimen of his rugged style in composition. Dated June 18, 1728, 
the warning represents: — "That whereas there is a precinct set off at the 
north end of the town of Killingly by an act of the General Court, held 
at Hartford in May last, and they want to be imbodied: These are there- 
fore in his Majesty's name, to Mr. Benjamin Bixby and Mr. Hezekiah 
Sabin, and Mr. Ebenezer Green, all of said precinct, to require you to 
warn or cause to be warned all the inhabitants within your precinct to 
meet at the dwelling-house of Hezekiah Sabin in said precinct, on the 

9th day of July then and there for to choose a precinct clerk, and any 

business that shall be lawful and thought needful for the health of the 
precinct." This brought the people together, and the first resolution voted 
was "to hire a minister to preach the gospel in said society." From this 
outstart the business went along through months to the erection of a 
meeting-house, and at last, Jan. 28, 1730, the organization of a Church. 
The men acting in one capacity or another who chiefly attract our regard 
are Samuel Bryant and his son-in-law, William Larned, Joseph Cndy, 
Henry Green and his many sons, Hezekiah Sabin, Nathanael Merrill. 
Benjamin Biiby, Uriah Horsmor, Samuel Converse and his sons, Jonathan 
Eaton, who is chosen deacon, and last of all the young pastor-elect. This 
is the Rev. Marston Cabot. A Harvard graduate of the class of 1704, he 
was twenty-six years old when he assumed charge of the new parish, 
known as the North Parish of Killingly, but afterward, and now, as the 
Church of Thompson, Conn. All this will be found of deep concern to 
the Leavens family when we reach the marriages of the children now 
growing up. 



PRIMITIVE DAYS IN KILLINGLY. 3i 

Indeed, we may follow this interestirs; community pomcwhat farther 
for glimpses of the times. In 1730 the parish embraced some 40 or 50 
families, more being added frequently. The names Wolcott, Marsh. Russell, 
Fuller, Child enter the record. The young parson, Mr. Cabot, had married 
a daughter of Parson Dwight, long of Woodstock, and it led the racy veteran 
to Thompson to spend a quiet old age. Life will not stagnate with him around. 
The boundary between Massachusetts and Connecticut causes no end of 
trouble. At Hartford in 1733 it was resolved, that "This Assembly do 
order and appoint Roger Wolcott, Esq., Mr. Jonathan Bumhara, Mr. 
Roger Newbury, and Mr. James Leavinze, or any three of them, to be a 
committee to perambulate the said line and renew the monuments there- 
in." Next year there is a graiiid arbitration over the disputed Thompson 
jands, in which James Leavens and Isaac Cutler appear on behalf of the 
proprietors of Killingly, while Joseph Leavens and two others argue for 
the rights of the town. Then comes the institution of a military com- 
pany, as if there were some premonition of the vast demand presently to 
be made on these hardy families for soldiers. And next the schools-- 
"for the benefit and advantig of havmg their children educated in reading 
wrighting and siferingl" These arrangements completed, the meeting- 
house elaborately finished, and a pound for cattle established, Thompson 
Parish marched along the high road of prosperity. Still it was terri- 
torially a part of Killingly, and it will be a long day before it becomes 
a separate town. 

Let us review the four original families during a period coming down 
to about 1740. 

(1.) 

We have seen the premature death of the first Peter Leavens in 
1708 9 and the adjustment of his estate. Nineteen years roll by and 
there is written on the records of a Court of Probate in New London 
(April 10, 1727) as follows:— 

"Peter Lovens the only son of Peter Levens L.ite of Killingly, De- 
ceased has made choice of his nnkle .Joseph Levens Esq of Killingly to 
be his Guardian as appears by a Cirtificate under the hand of Mr. .Jus- 
tice Pierce of Plainfield, which choice this Court approves of and the s'd 
Joseph Levens acknowledges himself bound to the Treasurer of the Coun- 
ty of New London in the sum of one hundred and forty pounds that he 
will be faithfule in his Guardianship afores'd as the Law directs. 

Whereas Joseph Levens ***informs this C/ourt that Patience Levenn 
administatrix on the estate of the s'd Dec'd has been also a long time 
dead, and that there are only left one eon and one daughter, and thoronpon 
moves y't ye s'd estate may be distributed to ye s'd children according to 
Law, and Whereas there is no account of administration but what appears 
from the records of this Court exhibited with the inventory being fiiiierale 
charges and debts due from the estate wh the s'd Guardian nals wt-rp un- 
doubtedly paid out of the estate by the Administatrix in her lifetime wh 



32 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



amounts to the sum of £37 lis 4d, the same is allowed; wh bemg taken 
out of the sum totale of the Inventory, there remains for distribution the 
sum of £108 19s 7d wh this Court distributes as follows viz. to the only 
son a Duble portion being £72 13s OOd and to the daughter the remainder 
being £36 06s 07d wh makes her a sincrle portion the daughter to be paid 
in movables as far as they will go*** **** _ , 

Thus the little estate is distributed as the son comes to his majority. 
From examination of the land records Miss Larned says that the "son 
Peter sells land in 1728; sells his home lot in 1731, and probably leaves 
the town." The conjecture is correct, for from other sources we learn 
of him in Dutchess County, New York, where, as we shall see, he married 
and became the head of a great family. 

Why did he leave? Perhaps the burden was too heavy for the heart 
of the lad. There was burden indeed. Not without reason did the inven- 
tory back in the year 1708 speak of the child Hester, "Sy^ years old very 
neady"! In the year 1739 the colonial Assembly received a petition from 
the select-men of Killingly conc>jr..ing one Esther Leavinze, a person of 
defective mind. It appeared that by order of Court in 1727 they had been 
required to take care of her estate, which consisted entirely of land, and 
they now sought leave to sell 33 acres for "defraying past charges and 
future support" of this person. There was long and prudent care of the 
one left an orphan and "very neady". There is a record of "Esther 
Leavens d. Apr, 1 1774, aged 69" 

FAMILY NO. 3. 

PETER LEAVENS (John, John) m. Patience : d. Feb. 7 1708 9. 

PATIENCE b. ? : d. long before 1727. 

Their children, at Killingly, 
Esther, b. Dec. 4 1705: d. Apr. 1 1774. 
Peter, b. Nov. 17 1707. 

(2) 

The home life of James Leavens does not come out clearly, although 
his career in business was so conspicuous. The indications show a man 
defective in education, but shrewd in judgment, vigorous in action and 
trusted for counsel. 

FAMILY NO. 4. 

JAMES LEAVENS (John, John) m. Mary Chamberlain Nov. 21 1699: d. ? 
MARY, b. ? : d. ? 

Their children, 
Hannah, bapt. at Woodstock Nov. 18 1700: m. Eleazer Brooks. Jan. 16 1725. 
Jerusha, bapt. Nov. 21 1714: 
John, b. ? 



PRIMITIVE DAYS IN KILLINGLY. 33 



Elizabeth, "dau. of Sergeant James Leavens" joined the Killingly Church 
Oct. 30 1737. 



(3.) 

In regard to the family of Joseph Leavens the materials of history 
are copious. Thanks to the endowment of Major Sabin it started pros- 
perously. And the munificence of the father-in-law continued unto the end. 
He died in 1743, bequeathing £20 each to two of his sous, £100 to Judith 
Leavens, and the remander of the great estate to the son Noah, who re- 
mained in Pomfret. (It is interesting to note that "his armor was valued 
at £15; books £4; brass and iron £35; husbandry utensils £64; stock £306; 
six horses £90; one Indian girl £20".) Joseph Leavens was not under a 
necessity of speculating like his brothers, and devoted himself to his home 
and his estate. Before he began his public career in 1725, ten children had 
come into his home, and others were born later. 

In process of time there were marriages, and, the ice once broken, 
weddings happened often. The son Joseph found a wife in the family of 
Deacon Jonathan Eaton of the Thompson Church. 

The son Noah took a wife from the family of Nathanael Merrill. 

The son John went over to Pomfret (but it was much later) and took 
Esther Williams. 

But the Leavens girls! eight in a bunch! and each obtained a worthy 
husband, and all were settled in a group around the paternal home! Our 
understanding of the matrimonial allotment gives .Judith to Thomas Trus- 
dell, Nov. 20, 1737. He died in 1744, leaving three children. She then 
appears to have become the wife of Wyman Hutchins. 

Rachel was married Feb. 12, 1736 to Samuel Knight. They had tea 
children, and descendants of them are now living in Thompson village. 

Zerviah went to Joseph Hutchins Jan. 22, 1735. 

Abigail was married to Ezra Hutchins Dec. 10, 1740. Miss Lamed 
says: "They had nine children. The youngest, Dr. Penuel Hutchins, was 
one of the first physicians in Killingly. The Hutchins-Leavens combination 
made very strong characters, and an unusual number of ministers have 
been reared in the several families." 

Sybil was married to Nathanael Daniel. 

Sarah was won by Silas Hutchins, Jan. 14, 1747. 

Hannah was the first wife of Grindal Rawson, m. Feb. 26, 1745. 
There were two children, Joseph, who perhaps died young, and Hannah, 
who survived and was provided for in the will of her grandfather. The 
mother died at the end of 1750. 

Keziah was married, Dec. 28, 1749, to Ebenezer, third son of Willinni 
and Hannah Bryant Lamed. They had eleven children. Ebenezer Larned 



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34 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



"was a mau of sterling character, serving as select-man and deacon. His 
home was in the neighborhood east of Killingly Hill, where the memory 
of the gracious bearing and kindly acts of Mrs. Larned was long preserved. 
Their son Amasa, inserting an E in the name, became a prominent law- 
yer and politician in New London, and was the ancestor of that influential 
branch of the family known as the 'New London and Norwich Learneds.' " 

Alice married Hezekiah Green of Thompson Parish, Dec. 11, 1755, and 
had seven or more children. 

Thus this powerful family sent out branches in many directions while 
its patriarchal head was yet full of life. Justice Leavens has yet a strong 
part to play in affairs, as we are to see. 

FAMILY NO. 5. 

JOSEPH LEAVENS (John, John), m. (1) Judith Sabin 1707: d. at Kill- 
ingly, Nov. 5 1773. 

JUDITH, b. at Rehoboth Aug. 28 1690, dau. of John and Sarah (Peck) 
Sabin: d. 1751. 

Their children, b. at Killingly. 

Joseph, b. 1708: bapt. July 22 1716. 

Sarah, bapt. July 22, 1716: d. young. 
'Judith, bapt. July 22, 1716: m. (1) Thomas Trusdell. 

m. (2) Wyman Hutchins. 

Rachel, bapt. July 22 1716: m. Samuel Knight, 

Zeruiah, bapt. July 22, 1716: m. Joseph Hutchins. 

Abigail, bapt. 1718: m. Ezra Hutchins. 

Noah, bapt. 1720: 

Sybil, bapt. 1722: m. Nathiaael Daniel. 

Sarah, bapt. 1725: m. Silas Hutchins. 

Hannah, bapt. 1727: m. Grindall Rawson: d. Dec. 21 1750. ; 

Keziah, b. Mar. 8 1729: m. Ebenezer Larned. 
--Alice, b. Aug. 13 1732: m. Hezekiah Green. 

John, b. Sept. 23 1734. 

He m. (2) Hannah, dau. of Simon Bryant, and v/idow of William Larned. 
Dec. 17 1755: she d. Apr. 12 178L 



<4.) 

After the premature death of Benjamin Leavens the widow married 
again. At a Court of Probate in 1727 Elizabeth Horsmor presented her 
account as administratrix of the estate of her first husband. There was 
some careful provision for the children. In the year 1730 the boy Benjamin 
chooses his uncle Joseph Leavens for his guardian. Each of the others fol- 
lows the same precedent, James in 1733; Mary in 1735; and Elizabeth in 
1736. The son Benjamin was trained for manhood so as to become a most 



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active citizen. A memorandum has been found from the hand of an early 
school-master: "Names of Schollars I taught at Woodstock in ye year 1729 
etc., viz. From 10th November 1729 to 1st of April 1730." James Leav- 
ens is in the fortunate list. 

The daughter Maiy was married Jan. 8, 1740, to James Converse of 
Thompson. Miss Larned writes, "Her son Benjamin, sergeant on Capt. 
Elliott's Company at Bunker Hill, removed with the first band of emi- 
grants to Marietta, Ohio, where he was greatly esteemed and left fine 
children." 

The daughter Elizabeth was married to David Hebard (Hibbert) of 
Windham, Sept. 15, 1742. 

FAMILY NO. 6. 

BENJAMIN ' LEAVENS (John, John), m. Elisabeth Church, Dec. 21 

1715: d. 1724. 
ELISABETH, b. ?: d. ? 

Their children in Killingly, 
Benjamin, b. May 29, 1716: 
James, bapt. June 8, 1718: 
Mary, bapt. June 19 1720: m. James Converse. 
Elisabeth, bapt. Feb 13 1724: m. David Hebard. 

The widow Elisabeth joined the Church June 16 1724: and May 12 
1725 was married to Uriah Horsmor. 



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THE WIDENING CIRCLE. 



Let our next period stretch away from about 1740 to the breaking out 
of the French and Indian War in 1755. We are now more than a hundred 
years distant from the day when the first John Leavens came over the 
sea among men with the tastes and refinement of Englishmen of the 
Elizabethan era. Life in the new world has roughened their descen- 
dants. They make up a vigorous, hardy and daring people; but the com- 
munity is rude. Whoever may have been familiar with a New England 
region forty years after its first settlement will remember how stumps and 
stones still blotched the best of farms. Many a primitive log-house was 
still the family dwelling. Albeit the fields of the thrifty and prosperous 
may have become smooth, and there will be spacious homes surrounded 
by barns and granaries bursting with plenty. Eveiy day was filled with 
toil. The round of the seasons brought "spring's work," "haying," "har- 
vest" and a hundred intermediate occupations as regularly as the flight 
of time. The spinning-wheel buzzed in the kitchen and the loom clattered 
in the attic. The community produced all the necessaries of its life- 
its variety of seasonable foods, its fruits, its raiment of woolen or flax, 
leather from its own tanneries and shoes or harness from its own shops, 
its moderate luxuries also, and its stimulants, whether moderate or some- 
times immoderate. 

These Englishmen of New England were roughened, we may admit; 
but were not demoralized The "poor whites" of the south are said 
to be the degenerate posterity of sturdy Scotch-Irish settlers: the Boers 
of South Africa have fallen away from the identical stock that produced in 
another direction the aristocratic Knickerbockers of New York: if the 
English race in New England suffered on the surface, it never degenerated 
in the heart. The unadulterated blood of the Elizabethan Puritan still 
flowed in the veins of the Killingly farmers in the middle of the 18th 
century, and the intellectual impulse throbbed in their minds. They made 
much of public affairs, and well they might, for honor in town-meeting is 
no different thing from honor in an imperial parliament. Their schools 
were deficient in precision (as, for example, in the orthography of their 
names), but they induced pupils to think. The Church was an institution 
of the State in the Connecticut colony. Property was taxed to support it: 
and "town-meeting" was held in the "meeting-house," where the worship of 
God took place on Sunday. Doubtful was the experiment; but it forged 
principles. There was high speculation in theology, and there was spiritual 
fervor throughout that era. Jonathan Edwards was then at his prime in 
Northampton, a prince of American theologians who has not been sur- 



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passed, and volumes were coming from his pen. The "Great Awakening" 

spread over New England soon after 1740, and no settlement but felt the 

mighty revival. George Whitfield passed to and fro, and the yeomen of 

Connecticut were permitted to hear that most eloquent voice of the age. 

Killingly was abreast with the times. She had her own agitanous 

and controversies. The dismission of Parson Fiske was an event to mark 

the year 1741. He had enjoyed a fruitful ministry of twenty-six years. During 

that time he bad baptized no less tlian 763 persons, maiuly the children of 

Christian parents, the seed of the immense harvest of stalwart population 

that poured out from that mother town. The Church had risen to 4(K) 

members. His departure from the pastoral office was succeeded by a 

bitter strife over the erection of a new "meeting-house." A committee from 

the General Assembly of the Colony pitched upon a site on Break Neck Hill 

as suitable to accommodate the south part of the town, where worship 

was already established, as well as to serve the earlier inhabitants of the 

north. Against this locality the latter protested vehemently. They would 

prefer a division of the society, with permission to build for themselves. 

Their appeal to the General Assembly discloses the temper of the times: — 

"They which underwent or bare the burthen and charge of the first settle- 
ment can not but look upon it as a very great hardship if they shall be 
obliged to assist in the building a new house for public worship to be set at 
a great distance from them, to gratify ye inhabitants of ye south part, es- 
pecially since ye committee sent by ye Court directed said house to be built 
where very few can be accommodated, remote from settlements, environed 
with rocks and swamps," which will require great outlay for roads. "Your 
humble memorialists **** esteem themselves happy in having a wise As- 
sembly to resort to and their prayer is that they and their families 

may be made into a distinct precinct or another committee be appointed." 

There are fifty-oue names appended to the memorial, among them 
Joseph Leavens, James Leavens, Benjamin Leavens and Noah Leavens — 
the two first named being the well known brothers, the third a son of the 
first Benjamin, and Noah, the son of Justice Joseph. The old Justice is 
now a power in the Church, and his opponents think him an autocrat. He 
is clerk of the society and on the committee to fill the pulpit. He moderates 
the stormy meetings, and when the rash party proceed with the building on 
Break Neck, he obtains a stay from the Deputy Governor and Council. 
This document is addressed "To the Committee of ye prime society of 
Killingly" and is based on representations made by "Mr. Justice Leavens 
and Mr. John Leavens." This brings to sight John, the son of the first 
James Leavens. The paper was dated March 23, 1744, and that year, 
"Anno Eegni Regis, Georgii Secundi Decimo Septimo, the deputies in the 
Assembly from Killingly were "Mr. Joseph Levinze and Mr. Joseph Ca- 
dey." 

As the issue of the long controversy the Break Neck meeting-house 
was finished, and the Society was also divided. Then ensued a re-organiza- 



38 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



tion of the original Church of Killingly. Here is the covenant adopted Nop. 
25, 1745, a very flower of New England Puritanism:— 

"That we have taken the Lord Jehovah for our God; will fear Him, 
cleave to Him, and serve Him: bind ourselves to bring up our children in 
the knowledge and fear of God, and in special by orthodox catechism; to 
keep close to the truth of Christ, taking the sacred Scripture as the only 
rule of faith and practice. 

"Declare ourselves a Church of Christ according to Congregational prin- 
ciples as laid down in the Cambridge Platform, saving that instead of ruling 
elders we will from time to time cnoose two or more of the principal brethren 
to be helps and assistants to our pastor for the time being in managing the 
prudential afiEairs of the Church, and also to be present with our pastor 
at the examination of candidates for our holy communion, which candi- 
dates being approved shall exhibit in writing or otherwise a relation of 
their experience publicly on the Lord's Day before the Church and con- 
gregation in order to their being admitted to full communion." 

Among the seventeen names signed we read, Joseph Leavens Sen., 
Joseph Leavens Jun., Benj. Leavens, and John Leavens, each of whom we 
recognize as the head of an important household. A committee appointed 
to locate a new meeting-house reported to the Assembly of 1746 that they 
had been on the ground, heard all parties concerned and decided on a site 
'•on the east side of the country road, right against Noah Leaviiize new 
house, where said Leavinze has given a deed of an acre of land for that 
use, where we have set down a stake which is to be enclosed with the 
sills of said meeting-house". This was on the apex of Killingly Hill, since 
known as Putnam Heights. Then followed the erection of a spacious meet- 
ing-house, which was a rallying-point for many a day thereafter and saw 
stirring scenes. 

Let us keep the eye on the central figure, our old, one-thumbed patri- 
arch, the ancestor of so many of us. We may follow him into civil life, for 
he is in demand beyond the limits of Killingly. In 1745 he was one of 
those entrusted with the delicate task of locating a meeting-house for West 
Woodstock, which had been set off as a separate parish. 

A still greater question was at hand. The town of Woodstock was in 
a furor. Its charter rights had been derived from Massachusetts, and it 
Btill paid allegiance to that colony. But in point of fact it lay south of 
the north line of Connecticut, and did it not owe allegiance to this colony? 
It became a question of withdrawing from the former and accepting the 
latter jurisdiction. A "notable meetmg" to organize as a Connecticut town 
was held in the "first meeting-house" on Woodstock Hill at 10 a. m., 
Friday, July 28, 1749 O. S. Residents from all parts of Woodstock were 
present and many from neighboring towns. It needed a sagacious and 
fearless pilot in this venture, and such an one was on deck. "The venerable 
Joseph Leavens of Killingly, an honored son of Woodstock, called the 
meeting to order." A full list of town officers was chosen, and "all were 
sworn into office by Justice Leavens." A Connecticut town was made in 



THE WIDENING CIRCLE. 39 

a day. But Massachusetts reinoustrated that Leavens and others "exer- 
cised powers unwarrantably." The Governor of Connecticut retorted, 
forcibly if not logically, that the people of Woodstock belonged to his 
jurisdiction, "where God and the king had fixed the bounds of their habi- 
tation." But it could not be conceded without a struggle. For example, 
one Flagg, sheriff of Worcester County, Mass., served a writ in Wood- 
stock. A Connecticut constable summoned a force of citizens and released 
his prisoner. The party who had been apprehended then had the Massa- 
chusetts sheriff arrested and brought before Justice Leavens, who promptly 
convicted him. An appeal was taken to the Windham County Court and it 
sustained the justice. The pilot brought his craft to port and Woodstock 
is to this day a Connecticut town. 

Let us take our stand on Killingly Hill about the year 1753. The 
Rev. Perley Howe has suddenly died, and the Rev. Aaron Brown has been 
installed as his successor. Benjamin Leavens is treasurer of the Church; 
James Leavens is dead; Justice Joseph continues active; he had boen in 
the Colonial Assembly in 1749, and again in 1750. Miss Larned's History 
gives us this picture:— 

'Five hundred acres north of Chestnut Hill were sold by the heirs of 
John Knight to "Ebenezer Lamed, innkeeper," son of William Lamed of 
Thompson Parish in 1750. Mr. Larned was afterward deacon in the 
Church and an active member of society. His wife Keziah, daughter of 
Justice Leavens, was also greatly respected for intelligence and sound 
judgment. Among other notable women of this generation in Killingly 
v^ere eight daughters of Joseph Leavens, happily married in their native 
town. Four of these sisters married four sons of John Hutchius, and occu- 
pied continguous farms between Killingly Hill and the Centre.' 

We have now to enter again the Leavens households. All save the 
third of the original four are extinct. ITiat of Justice Joseph has been 
re-constructed. The noble mother of his children, Judith Sabin, died in 
1751. Four years later, being at the .age of 72, he married tlie widow of 
William Larned, the one who, as Hannah Bryant, had been the first 
bride in the Killingly Church, forty years before, and whose son Ebenezer 
had married one of his daughters. This venerable pair have many years 
of wedded life before them. 

Now we have to do with the fourth generation, and for convenience 
wc will number the families from seven to thirteen, inclusive. 

Peter (PETER) must have wandered extensively, for he had reached 
the age of thirty-eight when in 1745 he married in Dutchess County, New 
1 ork. It is significant that his first children re-produce the names Patience 
and Esther of his father's broken household in Ivilliugly; and as soon as 
sons arrive they are named Peter, Joseph and Benjamin. This family de- 
veloped amid the wholesome Quaker influences that made Nine Partners a 
famous locality in its day. 



40 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



FAMILY NO 7. 

PETER LEAVENS (Peter, John, John) m. Catharine Gaston, Feb. 24 

1745: d. 1776. 
CATHARINE, b. June 6 1722: d. May 12 1809. 

Their children, b. in Dutchess County, very likely at Nine Partners. 
Patience, b. Nov. 30 1745: m. Vermilye (Vincent?). 
Esther, b. Feb. 2 1747: d. young. 

Hannah, b. Feb. 22 1750: m. Joseph Thorn: d. Feb. 14 1830. 
Peter, b. Oct. 13 1751: 
Joseph, b. Feb. 5 1754: 
Elisabeth, b. Jan. 9 1756: m. Daniel Dean. 

Sarah, b. Oct. 27 1757: • ' 

Catharine, b. Mar. 6 1760: m. Abram Hyatt; to Canada. 
Phoebe, b. May 15 1762: 
Benjamin, b. Oct. 10 1766: 



John (JAMES) heads a great family. He married Mary Winter, Nov. 
6, 1730, and the baptisms of his children are carefully noted, for John and 
Mary Leavens joined the Church, Sept. 26, 1731. He was prominent in 
Killingly as surveyor and select-man; he took a vigorous part in the 
Church; and at a later date he was active in colonial affairs. He had a 
Beat in the Assembly in the year 1753 for the first time as deputy for 
Killingly, having Hezekiah Sabin for a colleague. Seven sons were born 
to him between 1731 and 1745. They were beginning to reach their ma- 
jority in the period now under review, capital material for soldiers in the 
wars that are impending. It will be interesting if we succeed in following 
the fortunes of all these sons in the troublous years. 

FAMILY NO. 8. 

JOHN LEAVENS (James, John, John) m. Mary Winter, Nov. 6 1730. 

Their children in Killingly, 
Samuel, b. July 3 1731: bapt. Sept. 26: Joined Church 1757. 
Peter, b. Sept. 14 1732: bapt. Sept. 17. 

John, b. Feb. 17 1734: bapt. Feb. 

Isaac, b. May 18 1735: bapt. May 

Penuel, b. March 18 1737: bapt. March 

Jerusha, b. Jan. 5 1739: bapt. Jan. 15. 
Simeon, b. June 4 1741: bapt. June 8. 
Benjamin, b. Mar. 3 1743: bapt. Apr. 24. 



When Joseph (JOSEPH) wedded Alice Ealon it was Parson Marston 
Cabot who solemnized the ceremony. This pair seems to have settled to a 
quiet life in a place carved out of the estate of the old Justice. Perhaps 



THE WIDENING CIRCLE. 41 

it is the extraordinary vigor of the senior Joseph that throws the junior 
of the same name into the shade. Nevertheless the latter has a creditable 
record and lived to a hale old age. Alice Eaton Leavens survived him ten 
years and her body reposes, apart from her husband, in the grave yard at 
Windsor, and is the link to connect the ligaveus family of Vermont to the 
good Connecticut stock. 

FAMILY NO. 9. 

JOSEPH LEAVENS (Joseph, John, John) m. Alice Eaton Feb. 18, 1736: 

d. 1787. 
ALICE, b. ?: d. FeU ^6 1797 at Windsor, Vt. 

Their children, b. and bapt. at Killingly, 
Jacob, b. Oct. 25 1736: 
Darius, b. Mar. 28 1738. 

Calvin, b. May 13 1741: apparently died early. 
Lurana, b. Nov. 18 1743: m. Benoni Cutler Dec. 22 1763. 
Charles, b. Aug. 23 1746: 
Hannah, b. July 4 1750: m. Joseph Lee July 15 1770. 



Noah (JOSEPH), with his wife Mary Merrill, began finely. He 
started a home on the apex of Killingly Hill, on lands taken no doubt 
from his father's possessions. A new house was built and children were 
born rapidly. But he was stricken with sickness. Conscious that the end 
was near he wrote a Will of singular beauty and hopefulness. He seemed 
to expect that his estate would go forward after his death as he would 
have carried it by his own strong hand, and that it would be able to 
Turn out bountilful legacies to his children when in the distant years 
they should one by one become of age. Little did his closing eyes foresee 
in i751 the two devastating wars that would be waged within the next 
thirty years. The little flock left fatherless consisted of three l>oys and 
two girls. The babe Joseph died the next year. 

After a widowhood of three years Mary Leavens was married, Feb. 
14, 1754, to Lieut. Isaac Lamed, a widower with a large family in Ox- 
ford, Mass. There the four Leavens ohlidren were reared. In the year 
1759 Rebecca was married to Peter Shumway (a nephew of Isaac Larned), 
and the name Leavens was long perpetuated as a first or middle name in 
the descendants of that couple. In 1702, Dec. 10, Zerviah Lea\ens was 
married to Samuel Moore. 

The two boys Abel and Elijah had legacies in the Will of their 
grandfather. Justice Joseph. It was laud, and they sold it to their uncle, 
Capt. John. It appears from a tax list that Elijah was at Oxford as 
late as 1771. (He served in the Revolution, but beyond that we do not 
keep sight of him.) Farther on we will trace the brother Abel ns the 
ancestor of a great branch that now goes by the name LEVINGS. 



48 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



FAMILY NO. 10. 

NOAH LEAVENS (Joseph, John John) m. Mary Merrill Oct. 1 1740: 
d. 1751. 

Their children, b. in Killinfely, 
Abel, b. Jan. 14 1741: 
Rebecca, b. June 29 1743: m. Peter Shumway, June 4 1759, in Oxford 

Mass.: d. Mar. 11 1826. 
Zerviah, b. June 11 1745: m. Samuel Moore, Dec. 16 1762, in Oxford. 
Elijah, b. Aug. 1 1747: 

Joseph, b. Aug. 8 1749: doubtless d. in infancy. 
Joseph, b. Mar. 29 1751: d. June 8 1752. 

Mrs. Mary Leavens was married to Isaac Larned in Oxford Feb. 14, 
1754, aa his second wife; she died May 16, 1789. 



John (JOSEPH) during the period in hand is a youth in his minority. 
He is to have a lively part, we think, in the French and Indian War, 
and it will not be timely for him to marry until the issues of it are 
settled. 

Then he will be the mainstay of his aged father, the executor of his 
Will, and the residuary legatee of his landed estate. It indicates a man 
of substance and capacity, befitting his familiar appellation, "Capt. John." 
I'here are indications that his home was a centre of hospitality and intelli- 
gence. His enterprise will be demonstrated in leading out a vigorous 
family among the pioneers of Ohio. Though a little in advance, we insert 
his family here. 

FAMILY NO. 11. 

JOHN LEAVENS (Joseph, John, John) m. Esther Williams of Pomfret, 
March 20 1762: emigrated to the North West Territory and settled 
in Belpre Ohio, Nov. 1789: d. July 1799. 

ESTHER, b. at Killingly (Thompson) Jan. 27 1744: d. in Putnam (Zanes- 
ville) O. Nov. 27 1828. 

Their children, b. in Killingly, 
Joseph, b. Sept. 21 1763: 
Judith, b. May 21 1765: m. Shuball Wilmarth, North Adams Mass.: d. 

Jan. 27 1840. 
Vine, b. Aug. 5 1707: tradition that he perished at sea. 
Frances, b, Sept. 24 1709: m. in Ohio Nov. 14 1790 to Maj. Joseph Lincoln 

from Salem Mass.: d. at Gallipolis O. Mar. 1830. 
William, b. Sept. 17 1771: d. June 21 1773. 
Hannah, b. Sept. 5 1773: m. (1) Joseph Plummer. 

m. (2) Stephen Pierce, d. 1826. 



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Betsy, b. Sept. 28 1775: m. Mar. 23 1803 Dr. Increase Matthews, at Mari- 
etta O., d. May 3 1852 at Putnam (Zanesville) Ohio. 

William, b. Sept. 24 1777: d. Aug. 1778. 

Esther, b. July 25 1779: m. Thomas Sandford Nov. 27 1803: d. at Alex- 
andria Va. 1852. 

John, b. Oct. 2 1781: 

Matilda, b. Nov. 28 1783: m. John White: d. in Indiana. 



Benjamin (BENJAMIN) married Elisabeth Cady in 1742. Ten years 
later one child was born to them and he was a widower. Afterward he 
married youthful Dorothy Perrin, daughter of Samuel Perrin of Pom- 
fret. Seven sons were born to them in the twenty years from 1755 to 
1775. They were growing to manhood in the thrilling period when their 
father was active in public affairs. For this Benjamin was a man of com- 
manding influence during the excitements of the French and Indian War 
and also in the War of the Revolution. The home lay adjacent to that of 
Justice Joseph, and alongside the Justice he is one of the strongest men 
of the Leavens blood. The seven sons matured in his home and went out 
to be heads of large families. The oldest of this group saw service in 
the Revolution and all were molded in character by the grand events of 
their time. The posterity of this patriarch was carefully collected by Mr. 
Erastus W. Leavens more than thirty years ago, and we shall be greatly 
indebted to his work in following out the lines farther on. 

FAMILY NO. 12. 

BENJAMIN LEAVENS (Benjamin, John, John) m. (1) Elisabeth Cady 

Dec. 4 1742: d. July 27 17i)8. 
ELISABETH, d. of Capt. Joseph Cady: d. March 17, 1752, aged 32 years. 

Their child, b. at Killingly, 
Elisabeth, b. Mar. 10 1752. m. Ebenezer Gay Mar. 5 1773: d. 1S37. 

He m. (2) Dorothy Perrin July 18 1754. 
DOROTHY, b. ? : d. Feb. 27 1809. 

Their children at Killingly, 
Jedidiah, b. Aug. 19 1755: 

Lucy, b. Dec. 30 1756: m. Joseph Cady Apr. 10 1782. 
Roland, b. Sept. 7, 1758: 
Hezeklah, b. Sept. 12 1760: 
Benjamin, b. July 2 1763: 

Dorothy, b. Jan. 25 1765: m. John Kingsbury: d. Dec. 25 1820. 
Oliver, b. Nov. 16 1766: 
Royal, b. June 9 1769: d. March 24 1775. 
Eden, b. Nov. 20 1772: 
James, b. July 6 1775: 



44 THE LEAVENS NAME. 

James (BENJAMIN) became a member of the Thompson Church in 
1741. His wife was Bathsheba, but we know neither her maiden name 
nor the date of the marriage. Seven, if not nine, children appear either on 
the town record of births or the Church record of baptisms in Killingly. 
Only two are sons, and they appear to have died young. The family 
removed to Mansfield. The recently published records of that town show 
a second marriage of James Leavens and other children. Again the sons 
die young. We arrange the records according to our best judgment and 
we presume that there is no Leavens posterity upon this line. 

The inventory of his estate was presented to a Court of Probate in 
March, 1794, and may now be found in the Court House at Willimantic. 
It indicates a man of substance and of refinement. He had "lands about 
107 acres with all the buildings thereon" apprai-sed £438 14s lid. The 
total estate was £495 2s. 2d. Letters of administration were granted to 
Jonathan Hebard and a son-in-law, Amasa Stoel (Stowell), a strong indi- 
cation that there was no son. 

FAMILY NO. 13. 

JAMES LEAVENS (Benjamin, John, John) m. Bathsheba 

d. 1794. 
BATHSHEBA, b. ? : d. in Mansfield Jan. 6 1760. 

Their children, b. at Killingly, 
Prudence, b, June 6 1743: m. Isaac Cushman Nov. 14 1776 in Mansfield. 
James, b. July 19 1745: d. May 9 1746. 

Amasa, b. Sept. 3 1747: d. in Mansfield Jan. 4 17 

Elizabeth, bapt. Nov. 1 1749 (Mansfield record). 
Mary, b. June 25 1752: m. Josiah Stowell Nov. 5 1772 in Mansfield. 
Abigail, b. Apr. 22 1754: m. Abner Huntington, Oct. 15 1781 in Mansfield 
(A Killingly record ascribes to James Leavens Sybil and Lucretia, 

both bapt. Mar. 2 1766; perhaps it is an error for 1756.) 
Bathsheba, b. at Mansfield Nov. 5 1759: m. Amasa Stowell Feb 21 1786 in 
Mansfield. 

James Leavens then m. Esther Curtice dau. of Henry Curtice of Cov- 
entry, Apr. 23 1761. 

Their children, b. in Mansfield, 
Esther, b. Oct. 18 1763: 
Amasa, b. Oct. 20 1765: d. Aug. 11 1791. 
Henry, b. Aug. 31 1767: d. June 5 1776. 

(In the Mansfield records there is a marriage of Daniel Howe Jr. 
to Olive Leavens, May 16 1793.) 



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vin. 

THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR AND AFTER. 



The occurrence of hostilities between England and France in Europe 
was sure to be felt immediately and disastrously in America. It would 
set the French colony of Canada against New England, and indeed in- 
volve all the English colonies. It would at once rouse to excitement the 
Indian allies of both parties. Not waiting for an outbreak, even the 
apprehension of a war started the flame in 1755.The French took position 
at Crown Point on Lake Cliamplain, menacing most seriously all the 
English interests. In that year the plan was agreed upon that the New 
England colonies should raise a force for the relief of Crown Point and 
the strategic positions on Lake George. Connecticut was to furnish a 
thousand men. At this hour the name of Israel Putnam looms to view. 
Born in what is now Danvers, Mass., anciently Salem Village, he had 
married in 1738 and the next year had bought an estate in the Mortlake 
district, afterward Pomfret and now Brooklyn, Conn. There he lived 
the quiet and hardy life of a farmer. The affair of his shooting a savage 
wolf, in her den, in the winter of 1742-3, brought him into conspicuous no- 
tice among his neighbors. 

There is dispute as to Putnam's first service in the French and 
Indian War. Bancroft and many historians say that he served as a 
private in 1755. There is a firm tradition, however, that he raised a 
company of which he became captain. Anyway, there was a great stir 
in Connecticut. The General Assembly of 1755 (in which John Leavens 
was a deputy) held a session for urgent business in the autumn. Miss 
Earned writes, "In November Israel Putnam received a commission as 
captain and was ordered to raise a company of men to hold possession of 
Fort Edward during the ensuing winter." General Humphrey, his earliest 
biographer, says, "As he was extremely popular, he found no difficulty 
in enlisting his complement of recruits from the most hardy, enterprising 
and respectable young men of his neighborhood." One Peter Leavens was 
sergeant under him, and it surely was son of John (who sat in the As- 
sembly) and grandson of JAMES. Everybody knows that Putnam's com- 
pany did illustrious service as scouts and I'ungers. 

In 1756 war was formally declared between the two mother coun- 
tries. It affected their colonies everywhere in the world. Here began 
the movement which ultimately gave India to England; and here also was 
the training-school for the subsequent war of the Revolution, which cost 
her the loss of America. But for the present the colonists, our forefathers, 
were fighting for the king against France. In the General Assembly of 
1756 (Benjamin Leavens sitting for Killingly), forces were ordered to be 



46 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



raised and officers were appointed. Putnam was captain of the 4th com- 
pany in the First Regiment. In the 3rd company, of which John Payson 
was captain, there was John Leavinze 1st Lieut. We think this must 
have been the youngest son of Justice JOSEPH. The campaign of 1756 
was disastrous. In 1757 Fort William Henry on Lake George was taken 
by the French under Montcalm with fearful losses and horrible atrocities 
to the Americans. Soldiers were now demanded in great numbers. The 
Assembly of 1757 was raising its 11th regiment. Four companies marched 
from Windham County. The volunteers were men in advanced years, 
the fathers of the towns. The colonial records say, the Assembly "do 
establish Benj. Levins to be Lieut, of the 4th company or train band of 
the 11th Regiment in the Colony". He had been in the Assembly the 
previous year, and he leaves behind a group of small children if he now 
goes to the field. 

Under the ministry of William Pitt in England new life was infused 
into the world-wide war, and h was felt in the remotest settlement. 
From Oxford, Mass., there is a "return of men enlisted in John Chandler's 
regiment for the invasion of Canada under Gen. Amherst", and among 
the men is Abel Leavens aged 17. This is the son of Noah, grandson 
of JOSEPH, who had been left by the death of his father in 1751. The 
same year Connecticut made "Israel Putnam Esq. Major of 3rd Regiment 
and Captain of 3rd Company". In this company Was Peter Levinze, En- 
sign. Next year the 7th Co. has Peter Leveus for 1st Lieut.; and in 
1760 he is spelled Peter Leavens. It is quite surely one and the same 
Peter, though his surname is handled so capriciously. They give it another 
twist in 1761, when he is Peter Levins 1st Lieut, of the 11th Co. 

There was active war at all points on the American horizon— Louis- 
burg, Fort Du Quesne, Fort Frontenac— then in 1759 at Ticonderoga and 
down the Lake, while the gallant Wolfe was capturing Quebec. Finally 
in 1760 Canada went to the British. The war dragged on in other lands 
and the military organization was kept up in the colonies. One Penuel 
Levins comes to sight as Ensign of the 11th Co. in 1762. He must be a 
brother of the foregoing Peter. And at last— Peace in 1763! 

The disaster to the colony of Connecticut had been frightful. Hosts 
of her young men had perished. Farms had been left uncultivated; 
families had suffered to the verge of starvation; morality and religion 
had sunk to a low ebb; the colony lay in a miserable plight. We have 
seen certain Leavens names attaining to commissions or to subordinate 
offices; surely there may have been others in the ranks. It were a wonder 
iiideed if some were not numbered among the killed in battle, the dead 
of disease, or the lost in ways unknown. There are some sons' names 
on the lists of births or baptisms of whom we never hear again. They 
may have been engulfed in the wars. Unhappily there are no rosters 
of the soldiers of the P'rench and Indian War to identify them. 



THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. AND AFTER. 47 



From the close of the great conflict to the breaking out of the Revo- 
lution was a period of barely twelve years. The time was brief for re- 
cuperation. It was long enough, however, for a class of boys to grow 
to the age of bearing arms, and not so long but that the experienced 
soldiers of the former could take part in the latter struggle. 

The material prosperity of the colonies was quickened by the rising 
controversy with Great Britain. The "Stamp Act" became a law in 
1765 and excited the spirit of resistance. Duties on tea, glass and paints 
were imposed in 1767. The effect was a determination to foster indus- 
tries at home, to practise frugality, to increase manufactures and diminish 
importations. It was a severe regimen, but nothing could have been 
better for the country. The "Non-Importation Agreement" among the 
colonies was taken up in 1769. The Act of Parliament shutting the 
port of Boston in 1774 brought things to an acute strain. The country 
was stirred throughout; and the towns, one by one, took action. The in- 
habitants of Killingly in a meeting, June 29, 1774, reached the following 
resolutions: — 

"That we will not purchase any goods of linen or woolen manufacture 
imported from Great Britain, and will break off all trade and commerce 
with the Indies if it be thought best by the committees in general Con- 
gress." 

"That we will to the utmost of our power encourage manufactures 
among ourselves." 

"That we will not sell any flax seed to any person, except to be 
sold in the country or ground into oil." 

"That we will religiously abide by these resolves, till the port of 
Boston is opened and the liberties of the people restored." 

"Also — Voted and chose a committee to take in subscriptions of the 
inhabitants of this town in sheep or otherwise, to be transmitted to the 
poor in Boston." 

While these sentiments and resolutions were ripening, the Leavens 
families in Killingly were multiplying. As far back as 1760, a town-meet- 
ing in the great meeting-house on Killingly Hill chose Benja. Leavens as 
one of the select-men. Joseph Leavens Jr. had to be content with the 
humble office of "horse-brander." He enjoyed some compensation in the 
Church, where he was "society clerk." Lieut. Benjamin ro.se to be dea- 
con in 1765. The young men of the fifth generation were taking wives 
and setting up households. 

Before the first shot of the War of Independence a notable obituary 
is to be written. "JUSTICE JOSEril LEAVENS, a founder and father 
of the town, the last survivor of the settlers of Killingly, after having 
faithfully served God and his fellow-citizens for successive generations, 
departed this life Nov. 5, 1773, aged ninety years." 

His was a ragged and heroic character. There are abundant evi- 
dencfts of his kindly and generous disposition, and yet a broad hint lies 



48 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



in the record of Theophilus Knight that "the old squaw said she did 
wonder what made everybody afraid of Old One Thumb"! 

The progeny which sprang from him was immense, especially on the 
side of the daughters. The census of his grand-children was attempted 
by Theophilus Knight (one of them, who survived till 1844), but he con- 
fessed himself bewildered. There were to his knowledge 22 Hutchins iu 
three families; 10 Knights; 9 Larneds; and 7 Greens. There were also 
y^ Rawsons, Daniels and Trusdells in whose veins ran Leavens blood. He 
says, "the three brothers had thirteen children that I knew— they had 
more I suppose but how many more they had they were so long before my 
day I never knew how many more they had". He might have counted, 
we think about seventy-five grand-children to the sturdy old Justice. 

His body reposes in the ancient grave-yard of Killingly (now Putnam) 
beside Judith, the wife of his youth, and on the double head-stone one 
reads, 

"Our precious Souls have taken Flight 

To Realms of Everlastmg day 
And left our bodies here confined 

To mix and dwell with fe(llow) clay". 

Here follows iu full his last Will and Testament: — 

In the name of God, Amen. 

Sept. the 15th AD 1732—1 Joseph Leavens of Killingly in the County 
of Windham and Colony of Connecticut in New England, Esqr. being in 
health of body and perfect mind and memory, thanks be given to God 
therefor, calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is 
appointed for all men once to die, 

Do make and ordain this my last will and testament, «& principally 
and first of all I will vt bequeath my soul into the hand of God that 
gave it, hoping to be saved by Jesus Christ, & my body I will to the 
earth, to be buried at the discretion of my executor hereafter named, and 
touching such earthly estate which it pleased God to bless me with in 
this life, I give and demise and dispose in the following manner and 
form. 

Imprimis, — I give to my beloved wife Hannah all that estate she 
brought to me and also which room in my house she pleases, with privi- 
lege of the well and cellar, and sufficiency of wood at the door cut fit for 
the fire, and all provisions necessary for life both iu sickness and in health 
at the charge of my estate all to be performed as long as she pleases t) 
live in my house and is my widow, also I give her a mare called my mare 
for her own forever, to ride to meeting and elsewhere when she pleases. 

Item — I give to my son Joseph a tract of land in that part of my 
farm called the lower intervail, to begin at an old stump which is Benjamin 
Leavens corner on the bank of the river, thence down stream by the river 
till it comes to intersect the lower end of the plowing land, thence easterly 
across the intervail to a white oak tree marked, under the hill, thence 
southerly by a small pond hole to a farm formerly belonging to Capt. 
Sabin deceased, thence westerly by said farm till it come to a farm formerly 



THE FRENCH AxND INDIAN WAR. AND AFTER. 49 



belonging to Jabez Allen deceased, thence northerly by said farm till it 
come to intersect the sonth line of Benjamin Leavens, then westerly to 
the bound first mentioned: and also half my wearing apparel and that with 
what I have given him before, I judge to be his full share of my estate. 

Item,— I give to my two grand sons Abel and Elijah Lt-avens, two 
tracts of land in the lower iutervail which bound south John's land, 
North and East Joseph, West on the river; the other tract lyes in that 
part of my farm called the great field, that is, one moiety or one half 
of said field. Quantity for quality, said two tracts of land to be equally 
di>rided between them two and they to come into possession as they ar- 
rive at the age of twenty one years, and if either of them happens to 
die bffore that then the other to have the whole. 

Item, — I give to my son John all my houses and lands not lief ore 
disposed of with all my husbandry tools and utensils and my great l»ible 
and half my wearing apparel. And further my will is that after my just 
debts and funeral charges are paid, that all my personal estate indoors 
and out doors not yet disposed of shall be equally divided between my 
eight daughters and my Grand Daughter Hannah Rawson and my son 
John, that is Hannah and John to be each equal to one of my daughters, 
"Viz. Judith Hutchins, Rachel Knight, Zeruia Hutcliiiis, Abigail Hutchins, 
Sarah Hutchins, Sibel Daniels, Keziah Larned, Alice Green, Hannah Raw- 
son and my son John, meaning that they share equally alike, and I do 
hereby revoke and disannul all other wills by me made ratifying this 
only to be my last will and I do hereby constitute and appoint my son 
John Leavens Executor of this my last will and testament 

Signed, Sealed, published and declared and pronounced by the said 
Joseph Leavens to be his last will and testament. 

JOSEPH LEAVENS L. S. 

Damaris Howe 

Daiuaris Brown 

Aaron Brown. 

The above Will as offered for examination "November ye 12th AD 
1773"; and "At a Court of Probate held at Pomfret, within and for the 
district of Pomfret, on the 7th day of December AD 1773 present Ebenez?r 
Williams Esqr. Judge, personally appeared Mi'. John Leavens, the Executor 
named in the foregoing will and exhibited the same for Probate, and 
accepted the trusts therein reposed by the testator as Executor, and the 
same is by this court approved, allowed of and ordered to be recorded 
and kept on file". 



50 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



IX. 
THE REVOLUTION. 



In the events of the Revolution, especially during the early years, 
the inhabitants of Windham County could not but take the most lively 
interest. Many of them had sprung from the Massachusetts colony, where 
the troubles began. They now lay on the highway between Boston and 
the large towns of Connecticut, leading thence to New York and Phila- 
delphia. Couriers flew through their streets. Israel Putnam, destined to 
be so prominent in military affairs, was of their number. Jonathan Trum- 
bull, who was Governor of Connecticut throughout the Revolution, was 
a Windham County man. He was a confidential adviser of Washington, 
who, as it is rel.ited, used to say, when in perplexity— "Well, we must 
consult Brother Jonathan"— and hence the well-known epithet. 

The people acted as towns. After the stanch resolutions of June, 1774, 
Killingly's committee (of which Benjamin Leavens was one member) re- 
ported their town "to be well united, and determined to maintain its 
privileges at the risk of their lives and fortunes, and ready to contribute 
to the necessities of those called to suffer". A contribution of sheep for 
the hungry in Boston accompanied the resolutions. 

The conflicts on Lexington Green and in Concord occurred on Wednes- 
day, April 19, 1775. The news sped to Windham County. It was told to 
Putnam at his plow in the field. He "loitered not", but left his young son 
Daniel, "the driver of the team, to unyoke it in the furrow", and started 
out among the people. He advised them to wait until they were called 
out regularly, and then set forth on a night ride to Cambridge. Friday 
the 21st was spent by the people in active preparations. Our historian 
writes. "'There is some evidence that Killingly received the news at a 
still earlier hour on Thursday morning by a direct express from Boston, 
brought to the house of Mr. Hezekiah Cutler. He arose from his bed 
and fired his gun three times to give the alarm, and before sunrise, with 
fifteen men, had started for the battle field". "Many snatched their guns 
and marched off without waiting for formal orders. Killingly's stock of 
powder was stored in the meeting-house, under charge of Hezekiah Cut- 
ler, who had left orders that each volunteer should be furnished with half 
a pound and the house was thronged all day with squads of men coming 
from all parts of the town to claim their portion and march onward to 
Cambridge". 

A regular body of troops was dispatched on Sunday, April 23. Killing- 
ly sent 146 men. Among them were Major William Danielson and Cap- 
tains Elliot and Cady. In the company of Capt. Joseph Cady there are 
accredited, 



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Darius Leavens, corporal, 20 days 

John Leaveus, 7 " 

Penuel Leavens, 7 " 

Benjamin Leavens, 3 " 

Capt. McCIellan's "troop of horse" mustered at Woodstock. They 
V ere off before Putnam's message was received from Cambridge. A memo- 
randum says there were "36 horses rode". Among the names were Perlcy 
How, Waldo, Lyon, Sabiu, Williams, Perrin, Buck, Cady and others. On 
the roster is recorded "Charles Levings, 5 days". This is unquestionably 
Charles Leavens of Killingly. 

Of course the great proportion of the excited volunteers would return 
to their homes and avocations when military operations were reduced to 
order. Putnam came back to advise the Connecticut government. Six 
regiments were provided for, and he was named to be one of the 
Brigadier Generals. The Windham County soldiers were assigned to the 
Third Regiment, of which Putnam was Colonel and Experience Storra 
Lieut. Colonel. The eighth company was from Killingly, with Joseph 
Elliott for Captain. Many who had sprung forward at the first alarm 
were formally mustered into this regiment. Darius Leavens was corporal 
in Co. S. The regiment marched to the seat of war and joined the patriot 
army which was investing Boston and holding the British regulars therein. 
Other Connecticut troops had arrived, and New Hampshire men under 
Stark were on the ground. The whole business was under the direction 
of Massachusetts, whose highest officer was Gen. Artemas Ward; but 
there was great confusion of authority. 

Simultaneously there were lively actions in the north, where Ethan 
Allen captured Ticonderoga and pressed his way down Lake Champlain to- 
ward Canada. 

In June occurred the battle of Bunker Hill. Darius Leavens of Co. 8 
must have been under arms. It is understood that his part of the regi- 
ment covered the retreat when the Americans withdrew from the field. 

By this time the Continental Congress sitting in Philadelphia was 
prepared to assume direction of the War. It appointed Washington Com- 
mander-in-Chief and named Putnam to the fourth Major-Generalship. His 
part at Bunker Hill and the valor of the Connecticut troops were uni- 
versally applauded. Washington arrived and took command July 3rd, and 
Putnam was placed over the third division with head-quarters at the In- 
man house in Cambridge. The campaign resolved itself into a prolonged 
siege of Boston, within which the British were shut up. The besieging 
lines cut through that estate which the first John Leavens had settled in 
Roxbury and which was now the home chat mourned for General Joseph 
Warren, killed at Bunker Hill. It is mentioned as an incident of the time 
how most of the fine apple trees on the place were cut down by the sol- 
diers. 



52 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



In the autumn Gage passed the British command over to Howe. On 
the American side there were loud complaints on account of the inactivity 
of the campaign. In December the Connecticut troops could not be per- 
Buaded to prolong their enlistments, and this accounts for the expiration 
of the service of Darius Leavens on the 13th of that month. It is be- 
lieved that the majority of Putnam's regiment re-enlisted in Washington's 
Continental Army. 

In February arrived some of the canon captured by Ethan Allen at 
Ticonderoga. It is timely also to notice that New Hampshire patriots were 
astir. The Revolutionary records of that state show that "in the pay roll 
for Capt. Jason Wait's company in Col. Bedell's regiment, the name of 
Peter Leavins appears as a private in February 1776, in the first bat- 
talion of New Hampshire troops in Continental service". 

On March 4 and 5, 1776, the Americans occupied Dorchester Heights, 
It left Gen. Howe no option and on March 17 he embarked his army 
and sailed away to Halifax. Thus was Boston relieved, the campaign in 
Massachusetts closed and the seat of war transferred to the line of the 
Hudson. 

Meanwhile the campaign in the north against Canada was failing. 
The Declaration of Independence was iscued on the Fourth of July. 
Washington had left Boston in April for New York, and the British were 
now concentrating in that harbor. They landed and gained the battle 
of Long Island Aug. 27. Gen. Howe crossed East river into New York, 
Sept. 14, and the city was burned on the 21st. The American army 
withdrew north toward Westchester County. It was a dark hour for 
the patriot cause and the help of volunteers was eagerly solicited. From 
eastern Connecticut Major Backus' Regiment of Light Horse responded. 
It was ordered to New York in September and marched on the eighth. 
In the company of Capt. Keyes is enrolled the name of Charles Leavens. 
The Eleventh Regiment of militia marched Sept. 14th, Capt. Joseph 
Oady commanded Co. 3 and in the ranks stood Jedidiah Leavens. The 
intense strain in New York was alleviated somewhat by the battle of 
Harlem Heights, Sept. 16th, an advantage to the Americans, but won 
at the high cost of the death of Col. Thomas Knowlton, a gallant offi- 
cer, a son of Windham County.* 

The troop in which Charles Leavens served remained in the field till 
November, when Washington issued the following in General Orders:— 
"A relief having come for his Light Horse under Major Backus, that 
Corps is now dismissed with the General's hearty thanks for thoir faithful 



•When Connecticnt in 1895 honored the memory of ('ol. Knowlton with a splen- 
did statue in the State House, one member of the Statuary Commission was Kirke 
H. Leavens, Esq. of Norwich, a grandson of Jedidiah Leavens, above named. 



THE REVOLUTION. 53 



services and the cheerfulness and alacritj they have shown upon all oc- 
casions." 

It is deeply to be regretted that the rolls of the seven "Continental" 
regiments for 1776 from Connecticut are missing. We should look with 
keenest interest for Leavens names upon them. 

While the situation was so intensely strained in camp and tield, what 
was the feeling at home? There were no mails, no daily newspapers and 
no telegraph to keep the people informed of events and forewarned of 
what was likely to happen. A thousand fears sprang to their high-strung 
minds. At times there was blank consternation. Miss Lamed sketches a 
moment when an alarm was sounded in Killingly:— "Not a man was 
left at home but decrepit grandfathers and paralytics: no anus, no am- 
munition. Flight seemed the only resource, and a dismal, miry swamp 
was selected as the place of refuge. A boy was sent to rally all the 
neighbors. He ran to Larned's store, then a well-known business centre. 
Lieut. Larned had gone to the front with his regiment, leaving business 
and family in charge of his wife. She was not one to run from the face 
of danger. A rousing fire was blazing in the huge kitchen fire-place, filled 
with kettles of water and every iron instrument that could be mustered, 
with which she intended to make a stand against the invaders. "Old 
Granny Leavens"— the aged widow of the first William Larned of Thomp- 
son—was equally resolute. She had survived several Indian wars and two 
husbands, and now, sinking back into her chimney corner, exclaimed with 
Calvinistic resignation— "If I AM to be killed by the Tor-ies tonight, why 
then I SHALL BE, so I'll e'en stay with Becky." 

This was the second wife and widow of Justice JOSEPH, and it is 
our last glimpse of his immediate family. 

For New England there was the liveliest matter of concern in the 
invasion from Canada by Gen. Burgoyne. He re-took Ticonderoga in 
July, 1777. advanced to Fort Edward, was checked by the result of the 
battle of Bennington, Aug. 16, and surrendered at Saratoga, Oct. 16. 
There could not have been a soul in New England that was not thrilled 
by these proceedings, and we cannot but regret our inability to record tho 
acts and thoughts of every one of our ancestral family. A single illus- 
tration is recorded (see Family No. 21). 

An item of peculiar interest comes from New Hampshire. "In a 
return of Major Whitcomb's Independent Corps of Rangers from their 
enlistments till they were taken from under his command to join the Con- 
tinental Army by order of Congress the name of Noah Levings of West- 
moreland appears as enlisted March 18, 1777, for the war." We can not 
trace the career of this soldier, but "in an account of state bounties for 
Continental soldiers who enlisted in the year 1781 for three years or 
during the war the name of Noah Levins appears as having enlisted Jan. 
1, 1781, in 3rd Co., Ist Reg't, commanded by Col. Cilley". (See Family 2,'>). 



54 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



The personal attention of Washington was bestowed upon affairs 
around New York and Philadelpiua during 1777 and 78. A side issue 
was an attempt to dislodge the British from Newport. A body of militia 
commanded by Gen. Tyler served under Gen. Sullivan, and was present 
Aug. 21 at the battle of Rhode Island. In Col. Chapman's regiment, Capt. 
Cady's Co., appears "Isaac Leveans," the first private on the roll. (See 
Family No. 19). 

There were levies enlisted for short terms in the 3rd regiment, 1779-80. 
Among them served Joseph Levins, July 15, '80, to Dec. 12, '80. This regi- 
ment was with the main army on the Hudson during the campaign of 1780 
and wintered, '80-'81, at Connecticut village. 

(It is difficult to assign the following, which appears in the Massa- 
chusetts Records: 

"Levins, Joseph, Private, Capt. Israel Harris's co; Col. Benjamin 
Symouds's (Berkshire Co.) regt.; enlisted Oct. 12 1780; discharged Oct. 
15 1780; service 6 days, including 3 days (60 miles) travel home; company 
marched to northern frontier by order of Gen. Fellows on alarm; 

ALSO, Lieut. Alexander Sloan's detachment from Capt. Samuel 
Clark's co.. Col. Asa Barnes's regt; enlisted Oct. 22 1781; discharged, Nov. 
2 1781; service 12 days; detachment marched from Berkshire Co. to North- 
em frontiers".) 

Among the levies in the 8th regiment was Samuel Leavens, from 
Sept. 16, '80, to Dec. 9, '80. This regiment also was with the main army 
in the campaign of 1780 and then wintered at Connecticut village. 

These two youths must have been, we think, sons of Samuel Leavens, 
Fam. No. 17. 

During the later years of the Revolutionary War the field of opera- 
tions was in the South and the conduct of affairs lay with the Continental 
Congress. If any Leavens men were in the Continental Army it would be 
difficult to trace them in the far-away campaigns. 

The New England colonies at once after July 4, 1776, re-organized as 
states independent of the British crown. Benjamin Leavens sat for KiUing- 
ly in the General Assembly of Connecticut in the autumn of 1776, when 
the decisive resolution of independence was ratified. He attended three 
sessions of the Assembly in that memorable and eventful year, two in 
1778 and one in 1779— an honorable legislative service in a time that re- 
quired courage and wisdom. This patriarch survived to the age of eighty- 
two and died in the year 1798. He lies beside his wife Dorothy, in the 
ancient grave yard of Killingly. 

Let us take the opportunity in the stress of the Revolution to review 
the Leavens families. We will bring into a group all of the fifth genera- 



REVOLUTIONARY FAMILIES. 55 



tlon, both those within Killingly and those beyond the borders; both 
those actual before 1775, and those possible and prospective. 



Peter (Peter, PETER) appears in the enrollment of patriotic men in 
Dutchess County at the approach o£ the Revolution. We have great 
diflaculty in determining his family. In a letter from Lewis T. Leavens 
of Bloomfield, Ont-, dated May 28, 1894, we have the following, in answer 
to inquiries about this Peter Leavens: — "Quite unexpectedly one of hia 
grand-daughters, a lady over seventy, came to my place for a visit from 
the far West, Vancouver, B. C. She said that her grand-father married in 
Dutchess County and had one son, named Richard. The mother died and 
after two or three years he married again a lady named Hannah Hunt. The 
boy Richard was apprenticed to a trade, but became dissatisfied, and took 
hia own coui'se, changing his name so as to spell LEVINGS. Bj* the second 
marriage of the father four children were born in Dutchess County, Samuel 
died when a child, Peter and Robert lived to start families, Mary married 
John Harrass and moved to Canada. Robert also moved to Canada and 
died in early life, leaving children. The father Peter died when the son 
named Peter was about five years old." 

This is the most definite and authnetic information that we have, and 
we re-construct the families accordingly. We venture to surmise that the 
imperfect recollections which we have from kind correspondents now living 
in Dutchess County confuse the two families of Richard and Robert. How- 
ever, we must close the inquiry, and our results are subject to correction. 

FAMILY NO. 14. 

PETER LEAVENS (Peter, Peter, John, John) m. (1), In 

Dutchess Co.: d. 1778. 

Their child, 
Richard, b ? 

He m. (2) Hannah Hunt. 

Their children, 
Samuel, d. young. 

Mary, m. John Harrass; moved to Canada: d. 1855. 
Peter E., b. Nov. 26 1783: 
Robert, b. ? : m. and removed to Canada: d. 1830 in Prince Edward Co. 



Joseph (Peter, PETER) was at the age of twenty-one when the 
Revolution broke out and he married in that year, 1775. His occupation 
as a teacher and his bent as a religious leader indicate a man of peace. 
And yet in the public records of the times there appears an "enlisted 
man." Joseph Le'^vens, in the "Dutchess County Militia," fifth regiment, 
entitled to "Land Bounty." The man belonged to the Orthodox Quakers 
and was a minister of that Society forty years. He lived to preach at 



ne THE LEAVENS NAME. 



the funeral of a great-great-grand-child. With his family he removed to 
Canada in the year 1798. We understand him to have been the pioneer 
in the remarkable "migration" from Dutchess County to "Upper Canada." 
His wife, Phoebe Atwill, used to say that she went there "to have plenty 
of wood to bum and plenty of wheat bread to eat." There is the tra- 
dition that three sons of the venerable Quaker minister did duty for their 
adopted country in the War of 1812. 

FAMILY NO. 15. 

JOSEPH LEAVENS (Peter, Peter, John, John) m. Phoebe Atwill, Jan. 

1 1775: d. in Prince Edward Co., Canada, 1845. 
PHOEBE, b. in Dutchess Co., June 5 1755: d. in Prince Edward Co. 1842. 

Their children in Dutchess Co. N. Y. 
Sarah, b. Nov. 26 1775: m. Cornelius Palmer: d. in Canada, Dec. 13 1862. 
Mary, b. Jan. 1 1777: m. James Barker. 
Catharine, b. 1781: m. Enoch Cronk: d. March 24 1858. 
Deborah, b. : m. Martin Van Blaricorabe: d. May 15 1862. 

Benjamin, b. May 11 1786: m. Dency Huyck: no record of family. 
Peter, b. Jan. 3 1789: 
Eliphalet, b. May 24 1791: 
William, b. Nov. 21 1794: 
James W., b. Oct. 29 1797: 



Benjamin (Peter, PETER) was a boy nine years old at the out- 
break of the Revolution. He would not be the head of a family until 
five years after the close. This family removed to Canada in 1803. 

FAMILY NO. 16. 

BENJAMIN LEAVENS (Peter, Peter, John, John) m. Sarah Cunningham, 
Oct. 18 1787: d. Oct. 6 1844 in Prince Edward Co. Ont. 

SARAH, b. in Dutchess Co. Mar. 30 1766: d. in Prince Edward Co. Aug. 
27 1847. 
Their children in Dutchess Co., except the last. 

Daniel, b. Apr. 13 1789: ': 

Phoebe, b. Feb. 5 1791: d. Jan. 26 1881. 

William B., b. Jan. 27 1793: 

Samuel T., b. May 15 1796: d. July 4 1807. 

Thomas C, b. Sept. 29 1799: d. Oct. 6 1799. 

Mary, b. in Prince Edward Co. Nov. 14 1805: m. Mastin. 



Samuel (John JAMES) was the first born of a large family and in 
turn became the head of an important household in Killiugly. He married 



KEVOLUTIONARY FAMILIES. 57 



Elizabeth Johnson, Jan. 9, 1756. It is a fact perfectly established from the 
records of the town and of the Church that their first-born were twins, 
Joseph and Mary, who came Jan. 12, 1757; and the next additions were 
triplets (Willard, Alice and Eunice), born Aug. 3, 1759. The child Willard 
soon died, as the record of deaths shows. There is (or was), if we mistake 
not, a head-stone in the old burying-ground at Killingly that names an 
Alice Leavens who died in 1823, and she may well have been the triplet 
sister. Other children were born, among them a Samuel in 1765, and 
another Willard to replace the one lost. The two sons Joseph and Samuel 
appear in the Revolutionary records, and will find mention in the "mi- 
grations". 

It is a remarkable fact that in the year of this publication there was 
still living a grand daughter of this Samuel through the son Joseph. Mis» 
Valeria A. Leavens, who died at Glens Falls, N. Y., March 6, 1903. was 
born in the year 1813 to Joseph Leavens, who had been born at Killingly 
in the year 1757. She was deeply interested in the family history. She 
remembered hearing her father say that his mother had "five children under 
four years of age." She is spoken of as an amiable Christian woman; and 
we found her a sprightly and interesting correspondent. 

FAMILY NO. 17. 

SA\TUEL LEAVENS (John, James, John, John) m. Elisabeth Johnson 

Jan. 9 1756: d. ? 
ELISABETH, b. ?: d. ? .;^ 

Their children at Killingly, 
Joseph b. Jan. 12 1757: 
Mary, b. Jan. 12, 1757: 

Willard, b. Aug. 3 1759: bapt. Aug. 5: d. Dec. 21 1759. 
Alice, b. Aug. 3 1759; bapt. Aug. 5: d. Dec. 14 1823. 
Eunice, b. Aug. 3 1759; bapt. Aug. 5: 
Elisabeth, b. Mar. 31 1762: m. Caleb Marsh: d. 1855. 
Samuel, b. June 18 1765: 
W-lliam, bapt. Apr. 24 1768: 
Willard, bapt. Oct. 31 1770: d. Feb. 8 1823. 

We have stray notes that may concern the family of the Willard 
here brought to sight. 

A head-stone in the old burying-ground near Putnam commemorated 
"Rf chel, wife of Willard Leavens, d. July 26 1802 in her 32nd year". 

Elsewhere we learn that Rebecca Parks (b. Oct. 21 1776; d. Apr. 25 
1840) ra. Willard Leavens, son of a Leavens whose wife was Elizabeth 
Johi sou 



58 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



Auotlicr head-stone commemorates "Elizabeth, dau. of Willard Leav- 
ens, d, June 23 1845, aged 25 years". 

Another says, "Willard Leavens d. Feb. 8 1823 in his 52nd year". 

Si ppose two marriages and these facts can be combined and account 
for a family. 

FAMILY NO. 18. 

Peter (John, JAMES) does not appear as the head of a family; but 
is to be mentioned later in the "migrations". 



Isaac (John, JAMES) married, but we do not learn the date or the 

family from which he took a wife. A part of his children are on the 

records of births in Killingly, the earliest in the year 1765. He appears in 

the Eevolutionary service, and his subsequent course is explained in the 

"irigrations". 

FAMILY NO. 19. 

ISAAC LEAVENS (John, James, John, John) m. Mehitable : d. 

Easton, Washington Co. N. Y., May 29 1810. 
MEHITABLE, b. Dec. 25 1741: d. Mar. 10 1825. 

Their children, the four first named b. at Killingly, the others uncer- 
tain, 

Zerviah, b. Oct. 30 1765: 

Polly (Mary), b. March 31 1766: m. Uriah Burton: d. Dec. 6 1831. 
Roswell, b. Jan. 18 1768: 
N',ah, b. May 25, 1770: d. May 21 1826. 
Joseph, b. Sept. 28 1772: 

John, b. Sept. 20 1774: d. Aug. 23 1811 without children. 
Lucy, b. March 14, 1777: d. March 17 1794. 

Penuel (John, JAMES) came to sight in the militia at the close bf 
the French and Indian War. He is also one of the men who started 
from Killingly at the "Lexington Alarm." There is a record of his marriage 
in the year 1778, when he would have been forty-one years old. It is 
said that Penuel Leavens was killed at Eaton's, afterward Bundy's, grist 
mill, half a mile above Cargill's mill in Thompson. 

The family is not easily traced. 

FAMILY NO. 20. 

PENUEL LEAVENS (John, James, John, John) m. Joanna Brown, May 
17 1778: d. 

Their children, according to Town Clerk's record, 
Jesse, b. Oct. 2 1778: 



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Rhoda, b. Oct. 26 1779: 
Stephen, b. Feb. 26: 1781: 
Sarah, b. Dec. 25 1782: 
Joseph, b. Jan. 11 1785: 
Oliver, b. June 18 1789: 

We hear of one STEPHEN LEAVENS, who m. Juliett Meriok, in 
Onondaga Co., N. Y., and d. in Illinois, when his son was but two years 
old. The latter is BAIN LEAVENS of Shell Rock, Iowa. He has sons, 
but we are unable to give the record of the family. 

The Stephen named above had a brother JESSE LEAVENS, who 
Is said to have m. Martha Work. He had a son and a daughter, but 
the names do not come to us. 

We presume that these are the first and second sons in the family of 
Penuel. We insert here such records as we have of the third and fourth 
sons and their posterity. 

3. 

JOSEPH LEAVENS (Penuel, John, JAMES) m. Dorcas Whitford. 

Their children at Killingly, 
Willard, b. Mar. 30 1811: 
Mary Ann, b. : m. Pierce : d. 
George H., b. 1816: 
Sally, b. : 
Miranda, b. : m. Hyde : d. 

He m. (2) Annie, widow of his brother Oliver, Feb. 2 1823. 

Their child, 
Oliver, b. 

He m. (3) Lucina Pierce, Sept. 23 1832. 

LUOINA, b. ? d. Oct. 20 1879. 

Their children, 
Joseph, b. 1835: 

Dorcas Annie, b. 1838: in Providence. 
Sarah J., b. 1840: m. Shadrach Simmons, Nov. 18 1861. 
Harriet, b. 1845: m. Adams : d. 1863. 
Steaphen A., b. Nov. 4 1850: 

a. 

WILLARD LEAVENS (Joseph, Penuel, etc.) m. Susan Nott Hyde, Nov. 

14 1843: d. Feb. 17 1892. 
SUSAN N., b. July 2 1820 at Preston: d. about 1901. 



60 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



Their child at West Killingly, 
Elisabeth Nott, b. Sept. 30 1845: d. Sept. 3 1891. 



GEORGE H. LEAVENS (Joseph, Penuel, etc.) m. Sophia W. 

d. May 1899. 
SOPHIA, b. about 1813: d. Jan. 8 1860. 

Their child, 
Miranda, m. Sweet, at Putnam. 

He m. (2) Martha Lawton. 



OLIVER LEAVENS (Joseph, Penuel, etc.) m. Whittemore: 

Their children, 
Eliza, b. ? 
Henry, b. ? 

The family left Killingly about 1874. 



JOSEPH LEAVENS (Joseph, Penuel, etc.) m. Ruetta B. Chase, Nov. 19 
1856: d. Sept. 24 1866. 

Their children at Killingly, 
William, b. May 25 1858: d. July 11 1877. 
Eva, b. Feb. 18 1861: d. about 1878. 
Joseph K., b. Apr. 10 1867: d. about 1870. 

e. 

STEAPHEN A. LEAVENS (Joseph, Penuel, etc.) m. Margaret Palmer 

in 1871: 
MARGARET, b. 1849 in Ireland: 

Their children, 
Annie, b. 1872: m. Thomas Conley, in Providence. 
Joseph, b. 1874: 
Mabel, b. 1876: d. 1899. 

Margaret, b. 1878: m. William Robshaw, in Providence. 
Steaphen, b. 1880: d. 1881. 
Willard, b. 1881. 
George, b. 1883: 
Charlotte, b. 1885: 



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John, b. 1888: d. 1891. 

Thomas, adopted from Annie Couley. 

This family resides in or near Providence, R. I. 

JOSEPH LEAVENS (Steaphen A.. Joseph, Penuel, etc.; m. Ella Adams, 
and lives at Valley Falls, R. I. 

4. 

OLIVER LEAVENS (Penuel, John, James, etc.) m. Anna ; 

d. before 1823. 

ANNA, d. before 1832. 

Their children, 
Lncina, b. ? 
Nelson, b. July 18 1812: 

NELSON LEAVENS (Oliver, Joseph, Penuel, etc.) m. Elizabeth P. 
Chollar: d. Jan. 24 1893. 

ELIZABETH, b. Apr. 27 1810: d. Apr. 21 1879. 

Their children, 
William H. H., b. Sept. 21 1840: 
Charles N., b. May 16 1849: 

William H. H. Leavens belonged to Go. K, 18th Conn. Vols. must, in 
Aug. 18 1862: must, out June 27, 1865. 



FAMILY NO. 21. 

BENJAMIN LEAVENS (John, James, John, John). 

The "Revolutionary Records" of Massachusetts, lately published, con- 
tain the following: — 

Leavens, Benjamin. I'rivate, Lieut. Constant Webster's Co; en- 
listed Aug. 15 (1777): discharged Aug. 23 (1777); service 12 days, includ- 
ing travel ^90 miles) home; company marched from Worthington on ex- 
pedition to Bennington to re-enforce army under Gen. Stark, and returned 
home, via Northampton, conducting prisoners from Bennington". 

•'ALSO, descriptive li.st dated Norhampton, Sept. 14 1780, of men de- 
tached from Col. Israel Chapins (2nd Hampshire Co.) regt, for the term 
of three months, agreeable to resolve of June 22 1780; Capt. Webber's Co; 
a^e 37 yrs.; stature 6 ft.; complexion dark; engaged for town of Worthing- 
ton: mustered July 5 1780." 

The age here recorded clearly identifies this man as the youngest son 
of John Leavens, Fam. No. 8. 

There is another entry which may also refer to him. 



62 THE LEAVENS NAME. 

"Levins, Benjamin. Private, Capt. Ebenezer Sheldon's co; Col. Seth 
Murray's regt; enlisted July 30 1780; discharged Oct. 10 1780; service 2 
mos, 18 days, including 7 days (132 miles) travel home; regiment raised to 
re-enforce Continental Army for 3 months". 

We know nothing of the man after these services in the Revolution. 



Jacob (Joseph, JOSEPH) m. Elisabeth Hascall in the year 1768. He 
succeeded to the ancestral estate, but apparently died before his children 
had arrived at full age. One of his sons followed in possession and built 
the house which is now occupied as the residence on the old place founded 
by Justice JOSEPH. The other son will be found in the stream flowinng 
out toward the new countries opened after the Revolution. 

FAMILY NO. 22. 

JACOB LEAVENS (Joseph, Joseph, John, John) m. Elisabeth Hascall, 

Nov. 17 1768: d. 1786. 
ELISABETH, 

Their children, in Killingly, 
Lurana, b. July 2 1769: ra. Weld, Medina N. Y. 
Andrew, b. Feb. 11 1771: 

Elisabeth, b. July 4 1774: m. (Simeon?) Allen in Killingly. 
Susannah, b. Nov. 7 1775: m. Reuben Westcott, Milford N. Y. 
Sarah, b. June 2 1777: m. Wm. Andrews: d. Oct. 19 1859. 
Eunice, b. Sept. 28 1779: m. Chas. Wescott, Trenton Falls. 
Jacob, b. Oct. 14 1781: 
Mary, b. Oct. 14 1781: d. Dec. 12 1782. 



Darius (Joseph, JOSEPH) married Martha Fairbanks in the year 
1761. They two joined the Church Nov. 8 1763, and there is a record of 
the baptism of their first born child in the next month. He responded to 
the "Lexington alarm" Apr. 1775 and served 20 days as corporal. He 
belonged to the 8th Company in Col. Israel Putnam's Regiment, in which 
he served from May 10, 1775, to Dec. 13 of the same year. The regiment 
was on duty at the battle of Bunker Hill. According to the best of our 
knowledge the 8th Company was in the command that was ordered to cover 
the retreat of the patriot forces upon their withdrawal from the scene of 
the fight. Many of the Connecticut men upon the expiration of their term 
re-enlisted in the "Continental Army," but we do not follow the steps of 
Darius Leavens. Surely he had duties at home, where the last of his 
numerous children was born the next year. The mother died in 1783. 
The Church record of the father's death, in 1785, says, "aged 45 years", 
though he would seem to have been nearer 47. We must trace the orphan 
children when we come to treat of "migrations". 



REVOLUTIONARY FAMILIES. 63 



FAMILY NO. 23. 

DARIUS LEAVENS (.Tospph. Joseph, John, John) m. Martha Fnirbanks 

Nov. 26 1761: d. July 12 1785. 
MARTHA, b. ?: d. Mar. 12 1783. 

Their children iu Killingly, 
Alice, b. Apr. 28 1763: m. Rufus Fairbanks of riainfield or Coniish, N. H. 
Olive, b. Jan. 7 17<i.'>: m. Noah Bliss of Warren Mass. 
Ellen, b. Mar. 3 1767: m. Benjamin Buck of Windsor Vt, Nov. 25 1790: 

d. Feb. 23 1851. 
Rufus, b. Apr. 22 1760: 
Willard, b. Sept. 5 1771: 
Thurlow, b. Feb. 18 1774: 
Abel, b. Aug. 22 1776: 



Charles (Joseph, JOSEPH) married Lydia Grovcr in the year 1773. 
He comes to sight in Jan. 1775 in the public-spirited entoi-prise of buying a 
"common" on Killingly Hill. There are thirty-four subscribers to the fund. 
Among them appear Benjamin, Penuel, John, Jacob and Charles Leavens. 
He responded to the "Lexington alarm" in April. He rendered service 
in the autumn of 1776, which we note in the section upon the Revolution. 
He tarried in Killingly until three children were born, and then removed 
to Windsor, Vt. We here insert his family as the record of births is given 
in the published History of Windsor, 

FAMILY NO. 24. 

CHARLES LEAVENS (.Joseph, Joseph, John, John) m. Lydia Grover at 
Killingly June 27 1773: d. at Windsor, Aug. 4 1822. 
LYDIA, b. 1755: d. at Windsor, May 15 1839. 

Their children, h. at Killingly, 
Mary, b. March 15 1774: m. Benoni Buck. 
Penuel, b. Apr. 25 1777: 
Ira, b. Feb. 28 1779: 

(born at Windsor) 
Charles, b. March 13 1781: 
Calvin, b. Aug. 18 1784: 
Darius, b. June 17 17S6: 

John Grover, b. March 2 1788: d. Dec. 18 1801. 
Chloe, b. Nov. 3 1789: m. Luther Wardner. 
Jacob, b. Jan. 7 1792: d. Sept. 28 1801. 
Marson, b. Dec. 8 1793: d. March 28 1808. 



64 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



Abel (Noah, JOSEPH) was reared, we suppose, in the great family 
of Isaac Lamed, his step-father, in Oxford, on the Massachusetts side of 
the line. He is mentioned with his brother Elijah in the Will of their 
grand-father Justice Joseph Leavens, dated Sept. 15, 1762, and probated 
Nov. 12, 1773. The brothers "quit-claimed" their interest in the estate 
to their uncle, Capt. John Leavens, long before their grand-father died. 
In the Oxford records there is a "return of men enlisted in John Chandler's 
regiment for the invasion of Canada under Gen. Amherst". Among the 
men, who were "all of Oxford," appears Abel Levens. He is described as 
"a(ged) 17". This was in the year 1758. After the service he married 
Esther Munsell in Oxford, Aug. 28, 1700. We presume that most of his 
children were born there, but we have not the dates. 

Then came a great change. For the public records show Abel Leavens 
buying land, for which he pays £25, in Walpole, N. H., in the year 1772. 
The next year his youngest sou, Elijah, was born at Walpole. This inter- 
esting family is traced farther in the "migrations". 

FAMILY NO. 25. 

ABEL LEAVENS (Noah, Joseph. John, John) ni. Esther Munsell, Aug. 

28 1760: d. at Walpole N. H. about 1793. 
ESTHER, b. ?: d. ? 

Their children, born, we presume, in Oxford, except the last, who was 
born in Walpole. 
Noah, b. prob. 1762. 

Rebecca, b. ? : m. Ebenezer Wellington, Sturbridge Mass. 
Abel, b. ? 
Elijah, b. Nov. 9 1773. 



FAMILY NO. 26. 

Elijah (Noah, JOSEPH) was also brought up in Oxford. He is men- 
tioned as taxed there as late as the year 1771. He lived in the part now 
included in Charlton. 

In the "Revolutionary Records" of Massachusetts, recently published, 
appear the following entries: 

"Levins, Elijah, Charlton, Private, Capt. Jacob Davis Co; Col. Ebe- 
nezer Larned's regt, which marche<l on the alarm of April 19 1775 to 
Roxbury; service 12 days:" 

"Levens, Elijah, Charlton, Private, Capt. March Chase Co. Col. 
Nathan Sparhawk's regt; enlisted Sept. 22 1778; service 2 mos. 24 days at 
Dorchester; company discharged, Dec. 12 1778." 

"ALSO, Capt. Abijah Lamb's co.; Col. Jacob Davis's (Worcester Co.) 
regt; enlisted July 29 1780; discharged Aug. 8 1780; service 14 days in- 



KBVOLUTIONARY FAMILIES. 65 



eluding 4 days (80 miles) travel home; company marched to Tiverton R. I. 
on an alarm." 

This is clearlj' the first Elijah, son of Noah, born on Killingly Hill, 
brought up in Charlton (part of Oxford), Mass., and brotlipr of the first 
Abel, the one who migrated to New Hampshire. We have no knowledge 
of this Elijah subsequent to the Revolutionary record. 



Joseph (John, JOSEPH) was a boy of twelve at the out-break of 
the Revolution. lie was a young man when he followed his father in the 
migration to Ohio. There he married Betsy Stratton in Belpre. We find 
no posterity descending from him. 

FAMILY NO. 27. 

JOSEPH (John, JOSEPH, etc.) m. Betsy Stratton : d. near Belpre 

Sept. 13 1814. 

Their children, 
Elizabeth, b. : d. Oct. 22 1822, aged 20 years 

Katherine, b. : m. John Smithers: d. at Cape Girardeau Mo. 

Matilda, h. : m. John Smithers as 2nd wife; no child. 



John (John, JOSEPH) was not born until two years after the close 
of the War. Of course he accompanied in the exodus of his father's 
family to the "North-West Territory." There he married, and there he 
died in early manhood, leaving two daughters. Tliere is further reference 
in the Ohio story. 

FAMILY NO. 28. 

JOHN LEAVENS (John, Joseph, etc.) m. Patience Warner in Putnam. 

now Zanesville O. d 1815. 

PATIENCE, b. Dec. 2 1782: d. at Clinton 111. Oct. 23 1874. 

Their children at Putnam, 1 

Catharine B. b. 1807: d. Oct. .5 1893. 
Mary W. m. A. B. Lewis, June 2 1836. 



Jedidiah (Benjamin, BENJAMIN) was twenty years old at the out- 
break of the War. He rendered service in 1776, which is noticed in the 
proper connection. He then passed some time in the new settlements of 
Vermont. He was elected the first town-clerk of Reading, March 1780, 
and continued in office till June, 1781. He was engaged in a lively affair 
in Hartland when the controversy about the New York authority was 
raging. But he returned to Connecticut, where he married at an age 
somewhat mature. His body rests in the ancient grave-yard of Killingly. 
We insert here the families bearing the Leavens name descending from 
him. 



66 THE LEAVENS NAME. 

FAMILY NO. 29. 

JBDIDIAH LEAVENS (Benjamin, Benjamin, John, John) m. Patience 

Whittaker, Oct. 6 1793: d. May 1 1833. 
PATIENCE, b. Mar. 27 1770: d. May 31 1833. 

Their children, the first b. at Stafford Conn.; the others at Becket 
Mass., 
Mira, b. Aug. 7 1794: m. Geo. A. Richmond, 1814. 
Dolly, b. Aug. 11 1796: m. Sprague Aldrich, 1817. 
Betsy, b. July 29 1798: m. Lot Mitchell, 1830. 
Lucy, b. May 18 1800: m. Stukley Smith. 
Jedidiah, b. Mar. 27 1803: 
Marcia, Gay, b. Jan. 20 1806: m. Stephen Smith, 1832. 

JEDIDIAH LEAVENS (Jedidiah, Benjamin, Benjamin, John, John) m. 
Frances J. Hammond Jan. 15 1833 at Hampton Conn.: d. at Nor- 
wich July 9 1867. 

FRANCES J., b. Apr. 17 1812: d. Oct. 27 1895. 

Their children, the two first named b. at Killingly; the others at 
Norwich. 
Kirke Hammond, b. Sept. 24 1834: 
Josephine Maria, b. Dec. 24 1836: 
Benjamin, b. Sept. 9 1841: d. Sept. 19 1841. 
Lucy Griffin, b. March 26 1843: 
Francis Jedidiah, b. June 25 1845: 

The two sons are manufacturers in the Quiuebaug valley and honored 
residents of Norwich, Conn. 

KIRKE HAMMOND LEAVENS (Jedediah, Jcdediah, etc.) m. Martha M. 

Gleason, Oct. 1863: 
MARTHA M., b. July 1833: 

Their child, 
Sarah Hall, b. at Plainfield Conn. July 11 1868: 

Sarah Hall Leavens received the degree B. A. at Smith College in 
the Class of 1887. 

FRANCIS JEDEDIAH LEAVENS (Jedediah, Jedediah, etc.) m. Frances 

D. Dickson, Feb. 19 1874: 
FRANCES D. 

Their children at Norwich, 
Faith Robinson, b. Apr. 10 1878: 
Delia Dickson, b. Sept. 14 1879: 
Dickson Hammond, b. Mar. 16 1887: 



REVOLUTIONARY FAMILIES. G7 

Francis J. Leavens received the degree Ph. B. in the Class of 1865, 
Yale College. 

Faith Robinson, the degree of B. L. in the Class of 1900, Smith Col- 
lege. 

Delia Dickson, the degree of B. A. in the Class of 1901, Smith College. 

Dickson Hammond enters Yale University. 



ROLAND LEAVENS (Benjamin, BENJAMIN) was soveutceu at the 
beginning of the Revolution and married near its close. He succeeded his 
father on the Benjamin Leavens farm. The Leavens families proceeding 
from him are few and are here inserted. 

FAMILY NO. 30. 

ROLAND LEAVENS (Bonjnniin, Benjamin, .John. .John) m. Hannah 

Yl^aldo of Tomfret, 1784: d. March 18 1844. 
HANNAH, b. 1759: d. Oct. 18 1840. "She was an exemplary member of 

the First Congregational Church of Killingly for more than half a 

century". 

Their children, b. at Killingly, 
William, b. Nov. 4 1784: 
Mary, b. Dec. 24 1785: d. July 10 1846. 
Lyman, b. Dec. 16 1788: d. May 24 1850. No chillren. 
Marcia, b. Mar. 9 1790: m. Silas Richmond: d. Apr. 1842. 
Lucy, b. Mar. 9 1790: m. Asa White. 

Laura, b. Apr. 28 1798: m. Silas Richmond, second wife. 
Sarah, bapt. June 24 1802: probably d. young. 

WILLIAM LEAVENS (Roland, Benjamin, Benjamin, John, .Tohu) m. 
Ann Burritt, Feb. 13 1822: d. Feb. 22 1862. 

ANN, 

Their children in New York City, 
Lewis, b. May 5 1823: 
William, b. May 27 1826: 

William Leavens retired from business in New York City in the 
year 1835 and removed to rtekskill, where his descendants have been 
among the most respected people of the commurdty. 

LEWIS LEAVENS (William. Roland, etc.) m. Elmira Dyckman. Nov. 

1844: 
ELMIRA, d. March 22 1854. 

Their children, 
Mary M., b. at Hopkingtou R. I. Jan. 14 1847: 



68 THE LEAVENS NAME. 

Anna Amelia, b. at Peekskill, Feb. 2 1850: m. Wm. E. Haight. 
Harriet Maria, b. at Verplanck's, March 13 1854: d. in infancy. 

WILLIAM LEAVENS (William, Roland, etc.) m. Catherine M. Rider 

May 19 1851: d. Jan 31 1902. 
CATHERINE M., b. Dec. 1 1829: d. Apr. 6 1900. 

Their children, 
William, b. at Hopkinton R. I. Apr. 29 1853: d. Sept. 26 1869. 
Eleanor Osgood, b. at Peekskill, Mar. 19 1860: 



Hezekiah (Benjamin, BENJAMIN) was fifteen at the outbreak of the 
Revolution and married two years after the conclusion of the War. He 
is to be traced in the "migrations" and we here insert only his immediate 
family. 

FAMILY NO. 31. 

HEZEKIAH LEAVENS (Benjamin, Benjamin, John, John) m. Susan 

Bayley Oct. 30 1785: d. Nov. 13 1833. 
SUSAN, b. ?: d. ?. 

Their children. 
Royal, b. at Killingly, Dec. 12 1786: 
Benjamin, b. at Reading Vt. Oct. 19 1790: 
Joshua Bayley, b. at Reading, Oec. 23 1793: 
Susan, b. at Granville N. Y. Oct. 10 1797: m. Lewis Hunt, 1847. 
Emily, b. at Granville N. Y. Jan 17 1804: d. 1805. 



Benjamin (Benjamin, BENJAMIN), third in series of the name, was 
twelve when the first note of the Revolution was sounded. Neither 
he nor his posterity joined the movement to distant parts, yet were they 
numerous and disposed to scatter widely. We therefore enter here the 
family of this head and reserve the rest for a later page. 

FAMILY NO. 32. 

BENJAMIN LEAVENS (Benjamin, Benjamin, John, John) m. Sybil 

Learned, Sept. 25 1788: d. May 20 1851. 
SYBIL (SIBBELL ?) b. 1763: d. 1843. 

Their children, b. in Killingly, except the last, who saw the light in 
Charlton, Mass. 

Lucretia, b. Aug. 25 1791: d. May 28 1793. 
Loring, b. Aug. 17 1794: 
George Learned, b. Apr. 30 1796: 

Benjamin, b. Aug. 4 1798: > 

Perriu, b. Dec. 25 1803: d. Sept. 30 1841 ? 



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Oliver (Benjamin, Benjamin) was a lad from nine to seventeen while 
the War of the Revolution dragged along. He began active life in Killing- 
ly, but removed to Providence, R. I., soon after the dawn of the cen- 
tury. He died at au age comparatively early. We place here the brief 
and yet complete record of the name in his line. 

There is an Oliver Leavens on record, doing duty as a "musician in 
the War of 1812. 

FAMILY NO. 33. 

OLIVER LEAVENS (Benjamin, Benjamin, John, John) m. Rosanmnd 

Asbold: d. Nov. 19 1819. 
ROSAMOND, b. iu Rhode Island about 1773: d. June 30 1848. 

Their children, six at Killingly, three at Providence R. I. 
Malora, b-. Oct. 16 1796: d. 1816. 
Mary Ann, b. Aug. 17 1799: d. 1800. 
George Lewis, b. Oct. 7 1800: 
Erastus W., b. Jan. 2 1802: d. 1802. 
Benjamin A., b. Dec. 26 1803: d. 1804. 
Elisha, b. March 2 1805: d. 1805. 

Jesse Smith, b. May 14 1806: a sailor in U. S. service; d. at sea 
John, b. May 12 1809: d. 1813. 
Keziah A., b. Sept. 28 1814: m. Brown Richardson, 1834. 

Rosamond Leavens m. (2) Joseph Richardson of Uxbridge, Mass., who 
died Jan. 13, 1835. Her daughter Keziah A. Leavens m. Brown Richard- 
son, a grand-son of Joseph, and after a life-time spent on the Ricliardson 
homestead died May 15, 1873. A son. Dexter Richardson, belonged to 
Co. K, 15th Reg. Mass. Vol., and died of disease contracted in burying 
the dead after the battle of Antietam. 

GEORGE LEWIS LEAVENS (Oliver, Benjamin, etc.) m. Barbara Pet- 
tis, Jan. 4 1826: d. Aug. 14 1876. 
BARBARA, b. Aug. 18 1799: d. March 7 1874. 

Their children at Providence, 
John, b. Feb. 21 1827: d. Sept. 18 1827. 
Maria A., b. Feb. 23 1828: 
Melora A., b. Oct. 6 1829: 

Henry Clay, b. Dec. 8 1835: d. Sept. 27 1837. 
Rosamond R., b. May 30 1837: 



Eden Leavens (Benjamin, BENJAMIN) liud three sons in his Killingly 
home. His body reposes in the ancient graveyard with the Leavens 
patriarchs. The dispersion of liis posterity can be observed in the 
records on a subsequent page. His immediate family is here given. 



70 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



FAMILY >sO. 34. 

EDEN LEAVENS (Benjamin, Benjamin, John, John) m. Eleanor Nichols: 
d. May 29 1849. 

Their children at Killingly, 
John Nichols, b. Sept. 25 1799: 
Erastus Howe, b. Oct. 23 1801: 
Mary Ann, b. July 16 1804: d. Apr. 1 1857. 
Marvin M., b. Oct. 10 1807: 
Lucretia, b. Oct. 5 1814: d. Jan. 17 1850. 
Lucia, b. Sept. 23 1816: m. James Allen. 



James I-teavens (Benjamin, BENJAMIN) seems to have begun his 
family in Pomfret, but to have removed to Ontario, N. Y., about the year 
1810. He left sons and daughters, but the name is likely to become ex- 
tinct in his line. 

We give here his family, and his descendants, so far as we know them. 

FAMILY NO. 35. 

JAMES LEAVENS (Benjamin, Benjamin, John, John) m. Lydia Inman 
1805: waa drowned in Genesee river at Rochester N. Y. Nov. 12 
1827: 

LYDIA, d. May 23 1828. 

Their children at Pomfret Conn. 
Harriet, b. Apr. 19 1806: m. Joseph W. Gates 1826: d. 1831. 
Loana, b. July 3 1807: d. 1812. 
Lucy, b. Jan. 2 1809: m. Joseph W. Gates 1832: d. 1895. 

at Ontario N. Y, 
Henry, b. Jan. 15 1811: d. Apr. 6 1883, unmarried. 
Lewis, b. Feb. 18 1812: 
James, b. Oct. 6 1814: 
George, b, Oct. 6 1814: 

LEWIS LEAVENS (James, Benjamin, etc.) m. Clarissa Mack Feb 10 

1844: d. at Fowlerville Mich., Oct. 30 1887. 
CLARISSA, b. Sept. 14 1822: d. June 1 1856. 

Their children at Ontario, 
Lydia Loana, b. March 27 1846: m. Wm. M. Horton, Sept. 10 1873 at 

Comma Mich. 
Lewis Leroy, b. March 22 1848: d. March 28 1850. 
Sarah Emoroy, b. July 29 1854: 

He m. (2) Anna Mack, Apr. 11 1860. 



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ANNA, b. Feb. 21 1838: d. at Fowlerville, June 28 1886. 
Their child at Ontario, 

Clara G., b. Jan. 25 1865: m. Louis Feier, July 17 1890 at Cheboyg.in 
Mich. 

JAMBS LEAVENS (James, Benjamin, etc.) m. Hannah Simmons, May 
27 1855 and d. Apr. 1 1«56 leaving no child. 

GEORGE LEAVENS (James, Benjamin, etc.) m. Nancy Clarinda Sted- 

man, Dec. 17 1839: d. Dec. 8 1879. 
CLARINDA, b. Aug. 30 1819: d. Sept. 27 1898. 

Their children at Ontario, Wayne Co. N. Y., 
James Ashley, b. Apr. 31 1841: d. March 20 1850. 
George Mahlon, b. Dec. 11 1844: d. March 2 1863. 
Harriet Louisa, b. May 24 1851: d. Apr. 3 1863. 
Emily Adelia, b. Sept. 11 1852: m. Chauncoy N. Emery: d. Jan. 8 1892. 

at Webster, Monroe Co. N. Y. 
James Walker, b. Feb. 8 1858: m. Sabra Ann Hendee. 
Ella Abigail, b. Sept. 15 1860: m. Edward T. Craft, Dec. 21 1880. 

George Mahlon Leavens enlisted, June, 1862, in Co. A., 108th N. Y. Inft. 
He was in the battle of Antietam and was discharged, 1863. 



72 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



X. 

MIGRATIONS. 



After the Revolution there set in a stream of emigration from the old 
towns of Windham County. It was inevitable, for the land could not 
sustain a population so multiplied. Some went to the cities and founded 
families that acquired great wealth. Some young men proceeded to tiie 
colleges and entered the learned professions. More by far were attracted 
to the frontiers to undertake the settlement of new regions. At first it 
was northern New England, and New York from the Hudson to the 
lakes. Later the lands beyond the Alleghenies became accessible. The 
Leavens people joined the column of pioneers and took to the countries 
clothed with the untouched forests. Few of them drifted to the towns 
or cities; and few remained to till the ancient farms or wait for the manu- 
factures that were to spring up and enliven the Quinebaug valley. 

In tracing these migrations we follow the order of the family as it 
descends from the four brothers once together in old Killingly. 



To Nine Partners, N. Y., and Thence to Canada. 

We have already related how Peter Leavens, son of PETER, left 
Killingly about the year 1731, and how he re-appeared in Dutchess County, 
New York, where he became the head of a large family. The record of 
his children, Fam. No. 7, is taken from the Bible of Hannah Leavens 
Thorne, still preserved in Millbrook, N. Y. The daughters married into 
prominent families, and their descendants are now to be met in Dutchess 
County. The sons had families, as we have before explained, and their 
records appear among those of the fifth generation, Fams. Nos. 14, 15 
and 16. The Leavens people of this branch affiliated with the Society of 
Friends or Quakers. 

Toward the end of the century and the beginning of the nineteenth, 
those Leavens households removed to Canada and settled in Prince Ed- 
ward County, within what is now the Province of Ontario. If we would 
account for such a movement we must remember that before the Great 
West was opened up there was a period when the fertile lands of "Upper 
Canada" were highly attractive to settlers. The Leavens posterity from 
this origin is numerous and is widely scattered in Ontario. It includes 
the almost entire first of the four divisions emanating from Killingly, 
that is to say, nearly all the posterity of the first PETER. And yet 
not all in Ontario who bear the name are from this source; there are 



DUTCHESS CO. AND CANADA. 73 

representatives of other branches aL^o. We place here such families as 
we have, grouped under the headship of the three brothers who emi- 
grated from Dutchess County. Not a few of the later generations have 
re-settled in the United States. 

We are to trace the descendants of the Dutchess County founder in 
three branches, following his three sons, Peter, Joseph and IJcnjamin. 
But before we take the road to Canada, let us record the posterity o* 
the sou who remained in Dutchess County and gave rise to the LEVINGS 
name there. See Family No. 14. 

I. 

(1) 

RICHARD LEVINGS (Peter, Peter, Peter, John, John) m. Prudence 
Bartlet:d ? 

Their children in Dutchess County, 
Bartlet Robert, b. Feb. 4 1808: 
Peter Rensalaer, b. Jan. 22 1809: 
Alonzo, b. Jan. 21 1811: 
Harriet Prudence, b. Dec. 1 1822: m. Adoniram J. Woodworth. 

We have also the following names, and we simply question whether 
they may not be the children of the brother, Robert Leavens:— 
Ncah, b. ? 

Mary, b ? 

Jane, b. ? : ni. Sweet, and lived in Canada. 
Laura, b. ? : m. and lived in Canada. 

a. 

BAIITLRTT ROBERT LEVINtJS m. Sohprnnia lluiigerfoid March 15 

1829: d. 
SOPHRONIA, b. Sept. 7 1807: 

Their children, 
Edwin, b. July 23 1831: 
Sarnh S., b. Oct. 22 1833: m. Murray A. Griffin, and has four daughters. 

The home is Wing's Station. Dutchess Co., N. Y. 

EDWIN LEVINGS m. Carrie Patchin. Sept. 9 18G0: 

Sept. 9 1860: 
CARRIE, 

Their child, 
Robert, b. May 9 1877: m. Annie Wing, Oct. 14 1902. 
The home is Webatuck. Dutchess Co., N. Y. 



74 THE LEAVENS NAME. 

b. 

ALONZO LEVINGS m. Ruth Gillaudett, Mar. 18 1835: d. Sept. 19 1887; 
RUTH, b. June 29 1812. d. June 19 1879. 

Their child at North-East N. Y. 
Mary J., b. Feb. 10 1837: 



c. 

PETER RENSALAER LEVINGS m. Anna Nuun, May 7 1834 in New 

Yorli City: d. Apr. 18 1891 in Rockford 111. 
ANNA, b. in Liverpool Eng. 1801: d. May 10 1878 in Rockford. 

Their children, 
Harriet E., b. Apr, 1 1836: m. Apr. 2 1875 Benj. F. Pease. 
George W., b. June 25 1839: 
Thomas G., b. Apr. 10 1842: 
Margaret A., b. Feb. 14 1845: unmarried. 
Alfred H., b. Aug. 15 1848: 

Peter R. Leviugs early found his way from Dutchess County to 
New York City, He kept a general merchandise store at the corner of 
Greenwich and Veasey streets. There three of his children were born. 
In the autumn of 1842 the family removed to the West and settled on 
a farm in Winnebago, 111. There two other children were born. He 
became one of the first tradesmen in the town of Rockford, which since 
then has grown to a city of 45,000 people. 

The son, George W., after the War became a farmer and now owns 
an eligible estate contiguous to the city of Rockford. 

GEORGE W. LEVINGS (Peter R., etc.) m. Nellie Kimball, June 29 1869: 
NELLIE, b, July 4 1840: 

Their children at Rockford, 
Frank M,. b. Aug. 11 1870: 
Annie B., b, Dec. 28 1875: 
Nellie F., b. Sept. 4 1877: 
Ralph S., b. Oct. 4 1881: 
Golden W., b. June 9 1884: 

THOMAS G. LEVINGS (Peter R., etc.) m. Luella Fuller, Jan. 1 1871: 
who was born at Rockford Feb, 3 1849, 

ALFRED H, LEVINGS (Peter R., etc.) m. Annie Beverage: their child 
Ralph died at an early age. 



DUTCHESS CO. AND CANADA. 75 

Dr. Alfred H. Levings was graduated from the Medical Department 
of the North-Western University, ChicaK<\ in the year 18712. He is in 
practice at Alilwaukee, Wis., making a si>ecialty of Surgery. 

George W. and Thomas G. Levings enlisted in the llth 111 cavalry in 
1863 and continued in the service until mustered out in 18G5. One of them 
says: '"Our regiment was at the battle of Shiloh and siege of Vicksburg: 
went up on the Red river expedition; oiiased Kirby Smith and N. B. Forest's 
cavalry through Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana." 

Harriet E. Levings served in the U. S. Christian Commission from 
1863 to 1866. 

Mrs. G. W. Levings (then Miss Kimball) was teaching in Memphis at 
the time of Forest's raid, and, with her fellow teachers, was obliged to 
flee to Fort Pickering for safety. She was at Vicksburg and Mobile in the 
U. S. Freedmen's Bureau Work. 

Frank M. Levings served in the Spanish American War. He enlisted, 
July 31, 1898, as a private in the 2nd U. S. Etig. at Fort Sheridan, ami 
was mustere<l out as 2nd Lieut, in May, 1899. 



(2) 

PETER E. LEAVENS (Peter, Peter, Peter, John, John) m. Elisabeth 

Lounsberry: 
ELISABETH, b. Mar. 30 1790, daughter of a Quaker minister. 

Their children (1) born in Dutchess Co. 
Smith P., b. Jan. 6 1808: 
Maria, b. Aug. 9 1809: m. Job Ellsworth. 
Hannah b. Sept. 3 1811: m. Rev. Rowland Haight. 
Elisabeth, b. Sept. 13 1814: m. Amos Smith. 
Phoebe, b. March 24 1816: m. Daniel Dorland. 
Sarah, b. March 1 1818: m. Gol. H. Bleecker. 

Children (2) bom in Prince Edward Co. 
Catharine, b. Sept. 8 1820: d. in Michigan unmarried. 
Jane, b. Sept. 15 1822: m. Samuel Bouesteel. 
Abigail, b. Apr. 25 1824: m. Adam H. Garrett. 
John R., b. Feb. 16 1826. 
Charles, b. Nov, 15 1828: 

* 

Peter E. Leavens served in the war of 1812 on the American Hide; 
then removed to Canada about 1816 .iiid lived in Blooraf eld. Out. 



76 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



"Father said that grand-father Leavens died when he was four years 
old and that he never visited Canada. My father's brothers were Richard 
Leavens, the oldest, who left home and changed his name to Richard 
Levings; Robert Leavens who died in 1830 in Prince Edward Co. Canada, 
His sister was Mary Leavens Harrass who died in 1855. She had four 
sons; and three daughters". 

John R. Leavens, of Kalamazoo. 

"My great-uncles, Joseph Leavens and Benjamin Leavens came after 
my father with sleighs and moved him to Canada about the year ISlfl. 
He settled close to the old Quaker meeting-house which was built over 
a hundred years ago in Bloomfield, Prince Edward Co". 

J. R. L. 

SMITH P. LEAVENS (Peter E., Peter, Peter, Peter, John, John) m. 

Abigail Bowman: 
ABIGAIL, 

Their children, 
Borland, b. June 4 1835: 
Sarah Elisabeth, b. Nov. 30 1844: 

JOHN R. LEAVENS (Peter E., Peter, Peter, Peter, John, John) m. 

Sarah M. Hill May 18 1858: 
SARAH M., 

Their child, b. at Galesburg Mich., 
Frances, b. 1870: 

John R. Leavens says: — "On the 15th day of Aug. 1861 I went out in 
the late war, Co. E, 16th Iowa; through such battles as Shiloh, Corinth, 
Holly Springs, Champion Hill, luka the 19th day of Sept. '62, the second 
battle of Corinth 3rd and 4th of Oct. '62, the siege of Vicksburg which 
lasted 47 days'. "In '64 I returned home nearly exhausted weighing about 
100 pounds". 

CHARLES LEAVENS (Peter E., Peter, Peter, Peter, John, John) m. 
Margaret Foster: 

Their children, b. at Bloomfield Ont. 
Smith, b. 1852: 
Margaret, b. 1854: 

II. 

(1) 

PETER LEAVENS (Joseph, Peter, Peter, John, John) m. Delinda Bur- 
lingham, July 24 1809 in Prince Edward Co.: d. Apr. 11 1843. 



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DELINDA, b. ? : (1. Oct. 19 1846. 

Their children 1>. in Prince Edward Co., 
Elisabeth B., h. Apr. 8 1810: in. Henry Cooper: d. Feb. 12 1899. 
Phoebe, b. Oct. 8 1811: ni. George Bull: d. Juno 9 1901. 
Joseph, b. July 9 1813: d. Aug. 12 1813. 
Mary, b. Apr. 1 1815: m. Geo. W. Saunders: d. Nov. 29 1885. 
Joseph, b. May 21 1817: 
Rennsalaer B., b. May 20 1820: 

Roxa, b. July 17 1822: m. Joseph Baker: d. June 13 1849. 
William Burton, b. Jan 13 1826: 

(a) 

JOSEPH LEAVENS (Peter, Joseph, etc.) m. : d. Nov. 15 1857. 

His children, 
Elmira, b. : m. Thomas Jerow. 

Peter, b. : m. and went to California. 

Seth, b. : to California and died. 

(b) 

RENNSLEAR B. LEAVENS (Peter, Joseph, Peter, Peter, John, John) m, 

Fanny A. Cunningham, 22nd 1st mo. 1840. 
FANNY A., b. l(5th. lOtli mo. 1820: 

Their children, the first b. at Hallowell, the others at St. Vincent Ont. 
William Henry, b. 6th of 12th mo. 1840: d. 1841. 
Mary S., b. 3rd of 2nd mo. 1843: m. William Laycock 1863. 
Esther B., b. 7th of 12th mo. 1844: Daniel Cameron, 1864. 
Reuben, b. 17th of 5th mo. 1847: m. Elisa Gilson 1878. 
Sarah, b. 1st of 7th mo. 1849: m. W. F. Cain, 1868. 
Elisa, b. 30th of 6th mo. 1851: m. James Pearson. 1877. 
John F., b. 3rd of 2nd mo. 1854: m. Mary S. Rogers, 1881. 
Hannah F., b. 27th of 1st mo. 1856: m. David L. Seaman 1879. 
Charles L.. b. 10th of 2nd mo. 1858: m. Mary Grier 1881. 
Minnie b. 20th of 1st mo. 1861: m. James Lipsett, 1883. 

(c) 

WILLIAM BURTON LEAVENS (Peter, Joseph, Peter, Peter, John, 
John) m. Susan Aldrich, Apr. 23 1845 in Prince Edward Co.: d. 
Apr. 23 1897. 

SUSAN, d. Feb. 27 1897. 

Their son. 
Merritt, b. Aug. 7 1846. 

This family removed in 1847 to Grey Co., Canada. 



78 THE LEAVENS NAME. 

MERRITT LEAVENS (William Burton, Peter, Joseph, Peter, Peter, 
John, John) m. Mary Melissa Cain July 19 1866: 

Their children, b. at Meaford Ont. 
Susan Mary, b. 19th of 8th mo. 1867: 
Bertha J., b. 19th of 1st mo. 1870: m. Jamea F. Morris. 
Will Burton, b, 1st of 10th mo. 1876: 
Walton David, b. 5th of 4th mo 1879: 
Laurence Ashley, b. 4th of 5th mo. 1884: 

This family removed in 1898 to Foxwarren, Manitoba. 

(2) 

ELIPHALET LEAVENS (Joseph, Peter, Peter, John, John) m. Deborah 

Rogers, Feb. 22 1815: d. Nov. 1 1880. 
DEBORAH, b. at Nine Partners N. Y., Mar. 25 1797: d. July 14 1860. 

Their children at Hallowell township, Ont. 
Julia Ann., b. Dec. 8 1815: m. Moses Walters, Oct. 22 1833: d. June 18 

1876. 
Gilbert, b. Nov. 9 1817: d. June 22 1828. 

Nancy, b. Dec. 19 1819: m. William H. Southard, Oct. 9 1849. 
Eliza Ann, b. Sept. 23 1822: m. John Lovell, Mar. 27 1843: d Sept. 20 1857. 
Lewis T., b. May 6 1827: 

"Eliphalet Leavens was a veteran of the war of 1812. He received 
for his reward a grant of 100 acres of land in Prince Edward County and 
also an annual pension from the Federal Government of Canada until 
he died." 

LEWIS T. LEAVENS (Eliphalet, Joseph, Peter, etc.) m. Phoebe J. 

Garrat July 1 1852: d. Mar. 16 1899. 
PHOEBE J., b. in Hallowell Dec. 17 1831: 

Their children, 
Mary C, b. Jan. 3 1854: d. Jan. 8 1854. 
Walter R., b. Apr. 26 1857: 
Emma D., b. Nov. 4 1864: d. July 16 1871. 

Lewis T. Leavens inherited the estate that had been the home of 
his father and his grandfather, and transmitted the same to his son. "The 
family of Garratts came to Canada from Dutchess County N. Y., and 
previously from Ireland; and have long been and yet remain staunch 
adherents of the Society of Friends", 'old orthodox Quakers.' " 

WALTER R. LEAVENS (Lewis T., Eliphalet, Joseph, etc.) m. Mary E. 
Sills, March 19 1879: 



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MARY E., b. at Adolphstowii Oiil. May 2 1853: 

Their children at Bloomfield, 
Ralph G., b. Sept. 1 1881: 
Harry D., b. June 22 1890: 

(3) 

WILLIAM LEAVENS (Joseph, Peter, Peter, John, John) m. MaiKaret 
Hummiston. 

Their children were Gilbert; Susan; Robert; Deborah; Loui.s, and 
Phoebe; but there is no further record. 

It is said that the family removed to Michiganc 

(4) 

JAMES W. LEAVENS (Joseph, Peter, Peter. John, John) ni. Elisabeth 
Gunter: 

Their children at Bloomfield Ont. 
Nancy, m. Solomon Crosby: 
James B., m. Sarah J. Minnie and raised a family in North Hastings Co. 

Ont.. but there is no record. 
John H., b. Nov. 30 1829: 
Titus, there is no record. 

Elias, m. Rebecca Wilson, but there is no record. 
Youngs, d. unmarried. 

Clarke, "left home and was never heard of 
Austin, b. Jan. 4 1843: 

JOHN H. LEAVENS (James W., Joseph, Peter, etc) m. Eliza Graves: 
d. near Pictou, Ont., Apr. 23 1901. 

Their children in Prince Edward Co., Ont. 
Lewis T., b. May 6 1872: 
Cornelius B., b. May 6 1872: d. May 6 1872. 

LEWIS T. LEAVENS (.John H., James W., Joseph, Peter, etc.) ni. 
Phoebe Roblin, Nov. 23 1896: 

Their children, 
Philip J., b. Feb. 18 1898: d. Dec. 4 1901. 
Walter R., b. Aug. 30 1901: 

AUSTIN LEAVENS (James W., Joseph, Peter, etc.) m. Eustatia Mc- 
Donnell, Jan. 28 1867: d. Aug. 29 1898 at Rochester, N. Y. 

Their children at Bloomfield Ont. 
Harry C, b. May 12 1868: 



80 THE LEAVENS NAME, 



Sherman, Y., b. Sept. 6 1871: m. Anna E^ans, Apr. 14 1899: d. at Rochester 
N. Y. Apr. 24 1903, leaving no children. 

HARRY C. LEAVENS (Austin, James W., Joseph, etc.) m. Hattie Bown, 
May 9 1889: 

Their children, 
George B., b. at Fairport N. Y., Aug. 11 1891: 
Harold H., b. at Rochester N. Y., Nov. 14 1894: 



III. 



(1) 

DANIEL LEAVENS (Benjamin, Peter, Peter, John, John) m. Jane Blount 

1809: d. in P. Ed. Co. Aug. 24 1879. 
JANE, b. Aug. 9 1792: d. May 1.5 1868. 

Their children, 
Lydia, b. March 24 1810: m. : d. Apr. 7 1867. 

Samuel, b. Sept. 24 1811: m. : d. Sept. 17 1869. 

Cornelius, b. Apr. 29 1814: d. Apr 7 1821. 
Benjamin, b. Jan. 16 1816: m : d. Apr. 22 1843. 

Stephen, b. Nov. 20 1818: d. Nov. 9 1822. 
William B., b. Oct. 25 1820: d. Sept. 10 1821. 
Sarah, b. Jan. 18 1823: 

Cornelius, b. Sept. 1 1825: d. May 26 1827. 
Daniel, b. Aug. 1 1830: m. 

Caroline, b. Feb. 26 1834: m. 

We have an intimation that Samuel, son of Daniel, left a son, 
Samuel D. 

Also that Benjamin, son of Daniel, had sons, Paul C. and Stephen B., 
of Hillies, Ont., but we regret that ^ve cannot give the families in full. 

Also that Daniel, son of Daniel, had a daughter married in IMctou, 
Ont. 

(2) 

We have an intimation that WILLIAM B. LEAVENS, son of Benja 
min, had a son SAMUEL THORN, who married and had a son, reprodue 
ing the name William B. 



ALBANY AND CHESTERTOWN. 81 



To Albany and to Cfcestertown, N. Y. 

At the head of the remarkfible family of Samuel (Johu, JAMKS) in 
Killingly stands a Joseph Leavens beside his twin sister Mary. He par- 
ticipated in the Revolution; but probably did not make Killingly his home 
thereafter. He re-appears in Albany, N. Y. At the mature age of 
forty he married Apphia Bowen and nine children were born. The family 
home was afterward in Chestertown, Warren Co., New York. 

JOSEPH LEAVENS (Samuel, John, James, John, John) ni. Apphi.i 

Bowen Feb. 27 1797: d. May 9 1840. 
APPHIA, b. July 14 1773 at Havrehill N. H.: d. Apr. 5 1832. 

Their children were born at Albany and Chestertown, we suppnsn. 
To the best of our judgment six should be assigned to Albany and three 
to Chestertown. 

Joseph Bowen, b. July 7 1798. 
Apphia Delia, b. March 28 1800: d. Jan. 24 1805. 
Elisabeth Johnson, b. Ma^- 18 1802: d. Feb. 25 1839. 
Samuel Smith, b. Aug. 3 1804: d. Sept. 24 1805. 
Maria Bowen, b. Feb. 26 1806: d. Feb. 27 1869. 
Malissa, b. March 20 1808: d. Sept. 1 1872. 
John James, b. Nov. 10 1810:d. May 26 1832. 
Valeria Ann. b. June 9 1813: d. March 6 1903. 
Leander, b. May 1 1816: never married; d. Nov. 6 1862. 

JOSEPH BOWEN LEAVENS (Joseph. Samuel, John, James, John, John) 

m. Hannah Moon, Jan, 19 1819: d. Jan. 5 1889 (or Jan. 9 1887 ?) 
HANNAH, b. Aug. 20 1799: d. May 17 1874. 

Their children, 
John Moon, b. June 6 1820: 
Apphia Delia, b. Oct. 18 1823: m. Patterson. 
Julia Ann Maria, b. Feb. 26 1825: m. 
Samuel Bowen, b. Aug. 12 1828: 

Hannah Elisabeth, b. Apr. 17 1830: m. Daniel Dickinson, 1853. 
Joseph, b. Apr. 14 1833: m. at Albion N. Y. 
Sarah Agnes, b. Dec. 12 1835: m. Charles W. Stocking. 
Mary Etta. b. Dee. 14 1838: m. (1) Geo. Sheldon, Jan 3 1881. (2) Richard 
Pitman, Aug. 25 1884. (3) Alpheus A. Fenton Jan. 23 1892. 

JOHN MOON LEAVENS (Joseph Bowen, Joseph, Samuel. John. James. 
John, John) m. Celioda S. Paine, Jan. 15 1845: d. Sept. 29 1897. 



82 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



Their children, *• 

Albert Miner, b. July 8 1849: 
Joseph Amasa, b. May 1 1860: 

ALBERT MINER LEAVENS (John M., Joseph B., Joseph, etc.) m. 
Sarah Jane Merritt, Barre Centre N. Y., Jan 1 1886: 

Their children, two at Goodland, Mich., the third at Albion N. Y. 
Grace Evelyn, b. Dec. 26 1886: 
Albert Martin, b. May 25 1891: 
Florence Rose, b. Sept. 19 1901: 

JOSEPH AMASA LEAVENS (John M., Joseph B., Joseph, etc.) m. (1) 

Lepha M. Harrington, Dec. 25 1888: 
LEPHA M., b. at St. Clair Mich., Aug. 12 1855: d. 

Their children at Imlay City Mich. 
Harold, b. Aug. 12 1890: 
Lepha, b. Feb. 19 1893: 

He m. (2) Ellen Owen, b. Aug. 4 1869. 

SAMUEL BOWEN LEAVENS (Joseph B., Joseph, Samuel, John, James, 

John, John) m. (1) Mary Crandel 
MARY, b. Oct. 12 1839: d. Oct. 15 1880. 

Their children, 
Lewis C, b. Oct. 16 1855: 
Nathan Eugene, b. Sept. 10 1858: 
Charles Franklin, b. July 2 1861: 

He m. (2) P. A. Keeler. 
P. A., b. May 28 1860: 

Their children, 
Mattie E., b. Dec. 15 1889: 
Emma Etta. b. March 28 1891: 
Tressie Elizabeth, b. June 4 1894: 

Samuel B. Leavens was a member of the 17 N. Y. Battery and took 
part in the campaign of 1864 in Virginia. He was present at the sur- 
render at Appomattox and participated in the memorable events con- 
nected with it. 



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To Stillwater, Saratoga Co., New York: and Thence to Canada. 

Another son of Snmuel (John, JAMES) in Killingly was a serond 
Samuel. We presume it is he who is on the roster as serving in the 
Revolution. To be sure, he would have been very y.ning, hut it was n 
common thing that mere youths entered the army. We think we see him 
again at Stillwaf<>r. Saratoga Co.. New York, where a report says that 
Eli, a son of Samuel and IIann:ih Leavens, was horn in 1704. We are 
told that this youth moved with his parents to Hallowell, Prince Edward 
Co., Ontario. The family of Eli then becomes clear. That of Samuel 
the father is still obscure to ns. With but slight sense of uncertainty do 
we connect through to the Killingly stock. 

SAMUEL LEAVENS (Samuel, John, James, John, John) m. Hannah 

Their child at Stillwater, 
Eli, b, Sept. 14 1794: 

ELI LEAVENS (Samuel, Samuel, John, James, John, John) m. Clara 
Werden in Hallowell Ont. June 16 1819: d. at Pickering Ont. Dec. 

17 1865. 

CLARA, b. at Hallowell Ont. Oct. 16 1802: d. at Pickering Out. Feb. 

18 1878. 

Their children, four b. at HiiUowell and four at Pickering, 
Daniel, b. Jan. 23 1820: d. at Pickering. 
Horatio Sprague, b. Aug. 11 1821: d. at Darlington. 
William Wiltshire, b. March 2 1823: 
Dorinda, b. Dec. 12 1824: d. 
Byron Werden. b. Sept. 23 1826: d. 
Louisa Villars, b. July 25 1828: 
Hiram Kenyon, b. Sept. 28 1830: d. 
Elizabeth Werden, b. Feb. 14 1842: m. W. J. Shaw. 

WILLIAM WILTSHIRE LEAVENS (Eli. Samuel, Samuel. John, James, 
John, John) m. Lucy McCutcheon at Pickering Ont. May 24 1859: d. 
at Kansas City Mo. Jan. 13 1880. 

LUCY, b. in Upper Canada, June 18 1840: d. at Kansas City Mo. June 
13 1893. 

Their children, ' ^ 

Hiram, b. May 26 1860: d. June 9 1860 at Whitby Ont. 

at St. Aubert, Osage Co., Mo., 
Maud St. Aubert, b. Jan. 17 1862: m. Thos. W. Johnstou Jr. at San 

Diego, Cal., March 15 1897, now at Kaneas City. 
Ktuyou Grant, b. Aug. 26 1864: 



84 THE LEAVENS NAME. 

KENYON GRANT LEAVENS (William W., Eli, Samuel, etc.) m. LovJsa 

Hortense Picherau, Sept. 19 1889 at Kansas City: 
LOVISA HORTENSE, b. Oct. 6 1870 at Lacon 111.: 

Their children at Kansas City, 
Kenyou, b. May 25 1891: 
Arcene William, b. March 26 1893: 
Theodore, b. July 9 1900: 

K. G. Leavens is a Broker in Kansas City. 



An Erratic Career. 

We have noticed a Peter Leavens, sergeant under Putnam in the 
French and Indian War as early as 1755. He must surely have been 
the son of John (JAMES). He played an active and gallant part through- 
out that eventful war. A few years later there appears a Peter Leavena 
at Windsor, Vermont. He was taking a lively part in the resistance to 
the New York authorities in the memorable struggle of the "New Hamp- 
shire Grants." This was in May, 1770; and he was buying lands in 1772; 
but his name does not appear afterward. Again, upon the pay-rolls of 
Jason Wait's Company of New Hampshire troops in the Revolutionary 
War, at the date Feb., 1776, stands the name, Peter Leavins (Capt. Wait 
was from Alstead and many of his men were from Walpole). 

If these notices are of one and the same man, as we think they 
must be, we get jlimpses of the erratic career of a typical soldier in the 
olden time; but there is no visible trace of posterity springing from him. 



EASTON AND RENSSELAER CO. 86 

To EastoQ, Washington Co., New York. 

Isaac Leavens (John, JAMES) married in Connecticut. Tlie family 
record which we have already given was supplied by Noah Leavens Rem- 
ington of Middle Fails, New York. After the Revolution he settled in 
Easton, Washington Co., New York. Of Lis four sons, John died without 
children. Nonh is said to have died in Western New York without family. 
There is a tradition that Roswell settled in "Upper Canada". Descendants 
are to be traced by us only in the line of the son Joseph. Ue lived iu 
Schaticoke, N. Y., and left one son. 

JOSEPH LEAVENS (Isaac, John, James, John, John) m. Waltstill Peck: 

d. at Lansingburgh N. Y. in 1835. 
WAITSTILL, b. in Connecticut. 

Their children at Schaticoke, N. Y. 
Harriet, b. Nov. 27 1802: m. Moses Manlin, Sept. 27 1820: d. Apr. 20 1S30. 
Julia Ann, b. Oct. 12 1805: m. Jared G. Bacon, Sept. 20 1830. 
Jane Ann, b. May 12 1812: m. Robert H. Hyde, Dec. 23 1830: d. Apr. 25 

1843. 
Josephus Peck, b. Aug. 11 1815: 

JOSEPHUS PECK LEAVENS (Joseph, Isaac, John, James, John, John) 
m. Rebekah Jane Germond, Feb. 14 1837: d. at Lansingburgh Apr. 
2 1872. 

REBEKAH J., b. June 17 1817: d. Oct. 9 1885. 

Their children, 
Josephus Peck, b. Dec. 16 1837: 
Smith Germond, b. Dec. 11 1839: 

Jane Waitstill, b. May 6 1844: m. Charles Q. Eldridge Sept. 9 1873. 
Thomas Jefferson, b. Sept. 29 184G: 
Julia Augusta, b. June 6 1853: m. Milford L. Osborn Dec. 21 1875. 

JOSEPHUS P. LEAVENS (Josephus Peck, Joseph, etc.) m. Mary Lizzie 

Wheeler, March 5 1808: 
MARY L., b. Sept. 14 1845: d. June 28 1883. 

Their children, 
Joseph Germond, b. Oct. 21 1870: 

Mary Elisabeth, b. Nov. 14 1872: m. Theo. P. Douglass, Sept. 14 1897. 
Jennie Louise, b. Jan. 8 1875: m. Rev. A. E. Johnson, May 20 1897. 
John Manning, b. Aug. 27 1878: 

He m. (2) Evaliue Brewster, Jan. 6 1885. 
EVALINE, b. May 28 1849: d. Oct. 22 1895. 

Their child, 
Clara Rebecca, b. July 13 1887: 



86 THE LEAVKNS NAME. 

JOSEPH GERMOND LEAVENS (Josephus P., etc.) m. Mary L. Phelps, 
June 17 1896: 

Their children, 
Paul J., b. May 4 1897: 
Ruth Phelps, b. June 23 1901: 

JOHN MANNING LEAVENS (Josephus P., etc.) m. Maud M. Clark, Oct. 
4 1899: 

Their children, 
John Clark, b, Aug. 1 1900: 
a son, b. Apr. 1 1903: 

SMITH GERMOND LEAVENS (Josephus P., Joseph, Isaac, etc.) m. 

Annie Moore at Moore's Mills, N. Y., Feb. 18 1862: 
ANNIE, b. Aug. 7 1836: 

Their children at Melrose, N. Y. 
Edwin M., b. March 5 1863: 
Philip J., b. June 14 1865: 
Annie M., b. Oct. 11 1868: m. H. F. Sherman at Vineland, N. J. Dee. 6 

1892. 
Jane C, b. March 29 1872: 

EDWIN M. LEAVENS (Smith G., Josephus P., etc.) m. Elizabeth C. 

Jordan at Philadelphia, Apr. 28 1886: 
ELIZABETH C, b. 

Their child, 
Edwin J., b. Dec. 15 1888: d. July 5 1889. 

PHILIP J. LEAVENS (Smith G., Josephus P., etc.) m. Irene Sharp, at 

Vineland, June 5 1899: 
IRENE, b. 

Their children at Vineland, 
Helene S., b. Jan. 5 1901: d. Apr. 7 1901. 
Philip Smith, b. .Tan. 15 1902: 

THOMAS JEFFERSON LEAVENS (Josephus P., Joseph, etc.) m. Helen 

M. Adams, Lansingburgh, N. Y. Nov. 24 1874: 
HELEN M., b. at Lansingburgh, Aug. 26 1850: 

Their children there: 
Thomas Josephus, b. Dec. 9 1875: 
Florence Jane, b. Feb. 12 1878: d. Apr. 12 1879. 
Austin Millis, h Jan. 19 1880: 
Elizabeth Jaue, b. Oct. 1 1884: 
Helen Lansing, b. Oct. 1 1890: 
Annie Lansing, b. Nov. 30 1896: d. Aug. 11 1897, 



HOME AND NEAR BY. 87 



At Home and Near By (Not a Migration), 

Records show tliat in the year 1806 Andrew and Elisabetli Leavens 
were received to the Church of Killiugly, and Dec. I'J of that year they 
presented the four children, Simon Davis, Jacob, Elisabt-th and Sarah, for 
baptism. He is on the roll as a "private" doing service July, 1813. We 
have noted the fact that Andrew, great-grandson of Justice JOSErH, 
built the house which is now the residence on the old place. He was 
succeeded in the occupancy by his son Elisha. From him the place 
went to Mr. Gilbert A. Tracy, who had married his daughter Mary. The 
house is now the home of the Tracy family. 

Andrew Leavens had four sons, whose families may be noted in con- 
nection with his own 

ANDREW LIfiAVENS (Jacob, Joseph, Joseph, John, John* ui. Elisabeth 

Davis at Killingly Apr. 9 1797: d. June 28 1847. 
ELISABETH, d. Jan. 21 1857: 

Their children at Killingly, 
Elisha, b. Feb. 28 1798: 
Simon Davis, b. Aug. 12 1799: 
Jacob, b. June 3 1802: 

Elisabeth, b. Jan. 9 1804: m. John ChoUar March 27 1823: d. Sept. 13 1880. 
Sarah, b. Sept. 23 1805: m. George G. Hood, Oct. 31 1852: d. Sept. 15 1874. 
Rachel, b. Oct. 13 1809: d. Feb. 6 1886, unmarried. 
Andrew Knight, b. July 16 1819: 

ELISHA LEAVENS (Andrew, Jacob, Joseph, etc;) m. Huklah Howe, at 

Killingly, Nov. 30 1820: d. Nov. 10 1871. 
HULDAH, b. Feb. 20 1801: d. July 19 1866. 

Their children at Killingly, 
Twine, b. Nov. 19 1821: d. in infancy. 
Eliza Howe, b. Aug. 8 1823: m. M. B. H. Bishop, May 1 1853: d. Nov. 5 

1896. 
Harriet Frances, b. Aug. 24 1825: m. Prescott May, Jan. 31 1847. 
George, b. Dec. 3 1829: 

Mary, b. March 22 1836: m. Gilbert A. Tracy, Nov. 17 1864. 
Maria Howe, b. Feb. 8 1838: m. Edgar Amesbury, March 25 1856. 

GEORGE LEAVENS (Elisha, Andrew, etc.) m. Fanny Adelaide Stone 

Sept. 3 1854. 
FANNY A., b. July 1 1835: 



88 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



Their children at Danielson, 
Fred Davis, b. Sept. 30 1855: d. Jau. 4 1859. 
Mary AUce, b. Dec. 13 1859: d. Dec. 1 1875. 
Helen Howe. b. Apr. 27 1866: 

George Leavens, son of Elisha, was for forty years a merchant in 
Danielson, a borough located within the spacious town of Killingly. There 
he has held many offices of honor and responsibility and there he still 
resides. 

His daughter, Helen Howe, was educated at the New England Con- 
servatory of Music, Boston, and under private instructors in New York. 

Gilbert Avery Tracy (b. Sept. G 1835) ni. MARY LEAVENS: 

Their children, 
EllenHoyt, b. Jan. 28 1866: 
Charles Sprague, b. Sept. 11 1867: 
Mary Clemmer, b. Jan. 28 1871: 
Ralph Hoyt, b. May 8 1873: 

Mary Clemmer Tracy was graduated at Wellesley College in the 
Class of 1894: 

(2) 

SIMON DAVIS LEAVENS (Andrew, Jacob, Joseph, etc.) m. Helen Hall 
Curtis, Oct. 22 1832: d. 1849. 

Their children in Boston, 
Fitch Hall. b. Sept. 6 1833: d. March 9 1839. 
Elisabeth D., b. Jan. 10 1839: d. in early Infancy. 

Simon Davis Leavens became a man of business in Boston, but died 
at a comparatively early age. 

(3) 

JACOB LEAVENS (Andrew, Jacob, .Joseph, Joseph, John, John) m. 

Antoinette Allen at Woodstock Conn. 1831: d. Apr. 30 1879. 
ANTOINETTE, b. Oct. 30 1811: d. Apr. 17 1889. 

Their child at Thompson Conn. 
Albert, b. Oct. 25 1832: 

Jacob Leavens was a manufacturer at Thompson. He resided for a 
time in the West, but returned and died at Arlington, Mass. 

ALBERT LEAVENS (Jacob, Andrew, Jacob, Joseph, Joseph, John, John) 

m. Emily French Oct. 1868 at North Sandwich N. H.: 
EMILY, : d. at Arlington Mass. 1882. 



HOME AND NEAR BY. 89 



Their children, 
George A., b at Sandwich N. H. Aug. 8 1869: d. Sept. 25 1903. 
Mary Agnes, b. at Concord X. H. Dec. 16 ISTr^: 
Robert French, b. at Arlington Mass. l>ec. 20 1878: 
Alice Emily, b. at Arlington Mass. July 25 1881: 

Albert Leavens has long been a resident of Boston and is especially 
familiar with those places in Roxbury which were the original seat of 
emigrant John Leavens in 1632. He has taken the deepest interest in 
this family history, and has supplied valuable material. Each of his four 
children has received a College education. The family address is 49 Elmore 
St., Roxbury, Mass. 

George A. took the degree B. S. at Dartmouth in the Class of 1890 
and was in mercantile pursuits in Boston; Robert F. took the degree A. B. 
at Dartmouth in the Class of 1901, and is a student in the Divinity 
School of Harvard University; Mary A. took the degree A. B. at Wellesley 
College in the Class of 1901 and is a teacher; Alice B. took the degree A. B. 
at Smith College in the Class of 1903. 

(4) 

ANDREW KNIGHT LEAVENS (Andrew, Jacob, Joseph, etc.) m. H. 

Lois Torrey at Killingly Oct. 15 1839: 
LOIS, b. Nov. 1 1819: d. Sept. 1894. 

Their children at Killingly, 
William A., d. in infancy, Aug. 15 1842. 
Andrew H., d. in infancy, Sept. 30 1844. 

Andrew Knight Leavens has spent his life in Killingly, and still 
lives in the city of Putnam. He is the only man left of the fourth neuera- 
tiou from Justice Joseph, through the second Joseph. He, Mr. Georg-^ 
Leavens of Danielson, Mrs. Tracy on the Justice JOSEPH farm and 
Mr, Albert Leavens of Boston constitute the "old guard" that keep watch 
over the primitive sites in Roxbury, Woodstock and Killingly. 



90 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



To Oneida Countyt New York. 

The first Jacob Leavens in Killingly (Joseph, JOSEPH) stood in Hue 
to hold the ancestral estate, as we have already said. He married Elisa- 
beth Hascall in 1768, and in the next thirteen years eight children were 
born. He seems to have died early (1786 or 7). His children were left in 
their minority. The eldest son, Andrew, may have been 17 years old, 
while the youngest, another Jacob, was hardly more than four. Then 
there were six daughters. Precisely the course of this household is not 
clear; but the upshot of things was that Andrew settled on the historic 
homestead, as he ought, and the rest of the family first or last migrated 
to Trenton, Oneida County, New York. The i-ecord has been given on 
a former page. 

It is understood that the second Jacob married in Connecticut, but 
made his home in New York state. 

Sisters and daughters of Jacob Leavens were married into many 
families in Oneida county. 

JACOB LEAVENS (Jacob, Joseph, Joseph, John, John) m. Mary Orcutt 

at Stafford Conn.: d. at Trenton N. Y. Nov. 13 1833. 
MARY, b. Feb. 25 1785: d. at Trenton Falls N. Y. 

Their children at Stafford, 
Caroline Orcutt, b. Jan. 3 1806: m. Willard Osgood, Verona N. Y. 
Mary Ann, b. 1807: m. William Eagleston, Trenton N. Y. 
Alexander Hamilton, b. Dec, 25 1809: 
Harriet Cushman, b. Feb. 24 1811: m. D. W. Bacon, Trenton N. Y. 

ALEXANDER HAMILTON LEAVENS (Jacob, Joseph, etc.) m. Me- 
lissa Rust, at Trenton Falls N. Y. Sept. 30 1839: d. 
MELISSA, b. Nov. 4 1822: d. Aug. 7 1896. 

Their children at Trenton Falls except the son who was born at 
Fulton N. Y. 
Caroline Osgood, b. Oct. 11 1840: m. W. D. F. Richards. 
Lucy Josephine, b. Apr. 7 1845: in N. Y. City, unmarried. 
Charles Case. b. Mar. 2 1848: 
Evangeline, b. May 4 1853: m. Frank Peckbam, Utica, Oct. 4 1876. 

CHARLES CASE LEAVENS (Alexander H., Jacob, Joseph, etc.) m. (1) 
Mary Durkee in Conn. 

Their children at Bath N. Y. 
James Mc Q. b. Jan. 20 1877: 
Rachel H. b. Mar. 17 1883: 

He m. (2) Joeie Hallett and is at the "Riggs", Washington D. C. 



WINDSOR AND NORTHERN VERMONT. 91 

To Windsor, Vt.: thence to Northern Vermont and to the West. 

Charles Leavens, son of Joseph, and grand-son i)f the famous Justice 
Joseph, born in 174G and married to Lydia Grover in 1773, having per- 
formed his part in the Revolution, took the three chiUlreu born to him 
in old Killiugiy and went to Windsor, Vermont, about the year 1780. 
where he laid the foundation of a new home. There seven other children 
saw the light. Of the whole family, five sons and two daughters grew to 
maturity and married in or near Windsor. The father of this great 
household lx>re a creditable share in affairs. Tlie earliest town meeting 
in Windsor of which a record is preserved was held Feb. 17, 178G. One 
of the select-men then chosen was "Lieutenant Charles Leavens." He 
was also one of the "surveyors of highways". The marriage alliances 
with the Bucks and Wardners indicate a family of character and stand- 
ing. To this house came the mother, Alice Eaton Leavens, to spend her 
last days and to die. Other Leavens men— young men— were attracted to 
Windsor for either temporary or permanent sojourn. It seems pitiful that 
the migratory disposition should have borne the posterity away from th" 
site under Ascntney mountain so fondly remembered by all who ever 
lived there, until no one of the Leavens name is left in Windsor. 

We are to follow the paths of the families of the five sons of Charlea 
Leavens of Windsor. 

1. 

PENUEL LEAVENS (Charles, Joseph, Joseph, John. John) m. Sally Cross 
at Windsor, Feb. ISOO: d. at Berkshire July 17 1844. 

SALLY, b. at Methuen Mass. Feb. 13 1776, daughter of a soldier in the 
Revolutionary War: d. at Berkshire Feb. 8 1869. 

Their! children, the three first named b. at Windsor, the others at 
Berkshire. 

Linus, b. Oct. 12 1800: 

Lydia, b. Aug. 30 1802: m. Horace Chandler, St. Armand, P. Q. 
Paschal Pauli, b. Nov. 30 1804: 
Oranzo, b. Sept. 22 1811: 
Charles Avando, b. Aug. 6 1816: 
Sally Paulina, b. March 3 1818: d .June 18 1840. 

Penuel Leavens was a carpenter and joiner by trade, and he was a 
master of the craft as pursued in a land where lumber was felled in the 
forests and carried through all the processes into finished buildings. He 
began in Windsor, but removed with .' young family about the year 1809 
to the new town of Berkshire, on the northern frontier of Vermont, where 
he repeated the experience of hewing out a home in the rugged wilder- 
ness. He rendered service in the War of 1812, and was a stirring man 



92 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



in the primitive community. He lielped to order its town government, to 
organize its scliools, to build its "meeting-house", and to make passable 
its roads over hills and across streams. 

There is a numerous bevy of young men and boys sprung from grand- 
father Penuel of Berkshire, though most of them are far away from the 
old hearth-stone; and we would like to commend to them the rigorous 
honesty, the unflinching industry, and the bluff independence which strongly 
characterized their ancestors. 

(a) 

LINUS LEAVENS (Penuel, Chark-s, Joseph, Joseph, John, John) m. Betsy 

Deming at Berkshire Dec. 25 1822: d. Aug. 20 1879. 
BETSY, b. d. Sept. 7 1881. 

Their children in Berkshire, 
J. Wyman, b. Aug. 22 1824: 
Maryette, b. May 6 1826: d. Feb. 29 1887. 

Linus Leavens followed the trade of his father and spent his life in 
Berkshire. He was town clerk for thirty-four years, and his daughter 
succeeded him in the office. He was a magistrate for a generation. 

J. WYMAN LEAVENS (Linus, Penuel, Charles, Joseph, Joseph, John, 
John) m. Maria Holmes Jan. 8 1859: 

Their children at Berkshire, 
Linus, b. Sept. 21 1859: 
Burton Penuel, b. Apr. 9 1868: d. Sept. 4 1884. 

LINUS LEAVENS (J. Wyman, Linus, Penuel, etc.) m. Carrie I. Gaines 

at Berkshire Vt. Dec. 25 1882: 
CARRIE I., b. Oct. 30 1860 at Leverett Mass. 

Their children, the first at Cowansville P. Q., the last at Cam- 
bridge Vt. and tlie others at Enosburgh Falls. 
Linus Conroy, b. Oct. 31 1884: 
Harlow Gaines, b. Aug. 20 1886: 
John Burton, b. May 5 1890: d. Aug. 1 1891. 
Donald, b. June 3 1892. 
Dorothy C, b. July 30 1902: 

(b) 

Horace Chandler, m. LYDIA LEAVENS. 

He died at Brome P. Q., Apr. 25 1879: she d. there Aug. 19 1881. 
Their children at St. Armand P. Q., 
Azro Horace, b. Dec. 23 1825: ra. Nancy M. Holden. 



WINDSOR AND NORTHERN VERMONT. ".»3 

Harlow, b. March C \S2H: iii. Al.igiiil E. Holdeii. 

Edmund Leavens, b. Dec. 21 1829: in. A. Jane Darling. 

George Warner, b. Aug. 27 1832: 

Mary, b. March ;?1 1835: d. 1835. 

Linus, b. May 8 1836: m. (1) Martha J. Uolden. ui. (2) Margaret O'Hal- 

loran. 
Emily Paulina, b. June 7 18.39: ni. Edward A. Kobinson. 

Edmund Leavens Chandler at the time of his death was a member 
of the Dominion Parliament. 

George Warner Chandler became a citizen of Chicago and went out 
as Major in the 88 Regt., 111. Vols. He was promoted Lieut. Col. and 
was shot while in command of liis regiment in the battle of Kencsaw 
Mountain, June 27 18t>4. He lies buried beside his parents at Brome P. Q. 

(c) 

PASCHAL PAOLI LEAVENS (Penuel, Charles, Joseph, Joseph, John. 

John) m. Ann Eliza Bowen, Sept. 6 1829 in Berkshire: d. March 23 

1874. 
ANN ELIZA, b. at Clarendon Vt. Oct. 1 1807: d. Mar. 22 1861. 

Their children bom at Berkshire, 
Celia Maria, b. Dec. 2 1830: m. Henry Ladd: d. May 30 1892. 
Albert Harrison, b. Sept. 12 1833: d. June 4 1835. 
Henry Paoli, b. June 4 1836: 
Philo French, b. Nov. 19 1838: 
Leander Cushman, b. March 29 1841: 
Caroline Paulina, b. July 14 1843: d. May 25 1844. 
Elizabeth Ann, b. March 22 1845: d. June 31 1847. 
Roeetta Augusta, b. June 13 1848: d. May 30 1849. 
Harrison Bowen, b. May 1 1853: 

He m. (2) Mrs. Mary Susan Bowen, March 19 1863. She d. Nov. 18 
1902. 

Paschal P. Leavens succeeded his father in the Berkshire home. He 
was a man of such thrift that he could win a success out of the heart of 
a Vermont farm. 

In the course of his life he held well-nigh every office in the gift of his 
towns-men. He served repeated terms in each branch of the State Legis- 
lature and sat for some years as Assistant Judge of the County Court. 

Henry Ladd, m. CELIA MAKLV LEAVENS Dec. 20 1854: 

Their children at Berkshire, 
Albert Avery, b. Dec. 9 1856: 
Pascal Paoli, b. Sept. 7 1858: 
Anna Eliza, b. March 15 1861. ■ 



94 THE LEAVENS NAME. 

HENRY PAOLI LEAVENS (Paschal P., Penuel, etc.) m. L. Jane Scofield 
at St. Armaud P. Q. Sept. 2 1861: 

Their children b. at Neenah Wis., 
Albert Fuller, b. March 28 1863: 
Frank Arthur, b. Jan. 20 1865: 
Fred Ernest, b. July 4 1868: 
Addie Dell, b. June 2 187J : 

Henry P. Leavens and his sons are business men in the West. 

ALBERT FULLER LEAVExNTS (Henry P., Paschal P., Penuel, etc.) n;. 

Mary Wade at Chicago: 
MARY, b. Jan. 28 1869: 

Their children, 
Marie Beruice, b. Dec. 7 1890: 
Albert W^ade, b. March 27 1892: 

FRANK ARTHUR LEAVENS (Henry P., Paschal P., Penuel, etc.) m. 
at Neenah, Helen Mathews, June 12 1894: 

Their children, 
Jeanette Lucille, b. May 2 1895: 

FRED ERNEST LEAVENS (Henry P., Paschal P., Penuel, etc.) m. 
Charlotte Hills, Sept. 24 1896. 

PHILO FRENCH LEAVENS (Paschal P., Penuel, Charles, Joseph, Jo- 
seph, John, John) m. Helen J. Barry at Passaic N. J., Dec. 11 1873: 
HELEN J., b. at Boston Mass. Jan, 23 1846: 

Their children b. at Passaic, 
Annie Bowen, b. Oct. 2 1874: m. Wilfrid A. Manchee. 
William Barry, b. Jan. 9 1876: 

Cromwell, Harrison, b. Apr. 29 1878: d. June 12 1879. 
Alice French, b. March 15 1880: 

Philo French Leavens was graduated from the University of Ver- 
mont in the Class of 1861, and received the degree of D. D. in 1888. 
He was graduated from Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1866. 
He has been pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Passaic, N. J., 
since its organization in 1867. The situation is twelve miles from New 
York City and the community is composed largely of men whose business 
is in the city. 

He has had the advantage of three trips to the countries of Europe. 
His daughter, Annie B., received the degree A. B. from the University of 
Vermont in the Class of 1896; and his son, William B., took his A. B. 
there in the Class of 1898. Alice F. was educated at Wheaton Semi- 
nary and by travel abroad. 



WINDSOR AND NORTHERN VERMONT. 95 



Wilfrid Arthur Manchoe, m. ANNIE BOWEN LEAVENS, Nov. 17 1808. 

Their childrpn at Newark N. J., 
Arthur Leavens, b. Oct. 23 1899. 
Everett Habens, b. March 30 1901: 
Frederick Bowen, b. Feb. 11 1903. 

"WILLIAM BARKY LEAVENS (Philo F.. Paschal P., Penacl, pfc.) ui. 

Annie M. MacDonald. at St. .John's, Newfoundland, Dec. 28 1001. 
ANNIE MARY, b. at St. .Tolm's March 1 1877: 

LEANDER CUSHMAN LEAVENS (Paschal P., Penuel, Charles, Joseph, 

Joseph, John, John) m. Julia L. Lndd, Dec. 31 1865: 
JULIA L., b. June 25 1843: d. Apr. 6 1901. 

Their child, b. in Berkshire, 
Susie Cleone, b. May 5 1870: m. Dr. Rollin M. Pelton: d. July 20 1805. 

Leander C. Leavens went out as a private in the 10th Vermont In- 
fantry in 18C2 and continued iu the service until after the close of the 
War. He came home with the rank of Lieutenant. He has been in both 
houses of the state legislature, and has served on the staff of the Gov- 
ernor of A'ermont with the rank of Colonel. He has been Collector of 
Customs at Richford, Vt., and is now Treasurer of the Richford Savings 
Bauk and Trust Company. 

HARRISON BOWEN LEAVENS (Paschal P.. Penuel, etc.) m. Clara S. 

Craumer at Des Moines la. Sept. 16 1884: 
CLARA S., b. at Cincinnati O. Oct. 17 1855: 

Their children at Kansas City Mo. 
Lewis Craumer. b. Feb. 12 1886: 
Arthur Bowen, b. Oct. 17 1890: 

Harrison B. Leavens is a lawyer by profession and in business pur- 
suits. 

(d) 

ORANZO LI}AVENS (Penuel. ("harJes. Joseph, .Joseph. John, John) m. 
Mrs. Sarah Delano at Ottawa 111. Jan. 27 1853: d. at Ottawa. 

Their child at Ottawa, 
Carrie, b. 

(^) 

CHARLES AVANDO LEAVENS (Penu.>l, Charles. Joseph, Joseph. John. 
John) m. Rnth Noble at Berkshire. Mny 7 1S-10: d. at riiicaKo 1898. 
RUTH, b. at Berkshire: d. at ChicaRo. 



96 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



Their children, 

C. Willis, b. at Berkshire, Jan. 27 1841; 

Oranzo, b. at Berkshire, : d. 

Julia Paulina, b. at Waukesha Wis. Dec. 27 1846: 

Mary, b. at Neeuah, Wis., Feb. 28 1856: d. at Chicago. 

Eva K., b. at Neenah, Wis., Sept. 23 1859: m. Arthur Bowron. 

Charles W., b. at Neenah, Wis.: 

C. WILLIS LEAVENS (Charles A., Penuel, etc.) m. Irene Hussey at 

Neenah, : d. Oct. 29 1874. 

IRENE, b. 

Their children at Neenah, 
Vinnie R., b. : m. Jefferson Connell of Clarksdale Miss. 

Willis, b. : 

Avando, b. : m. Cora Allison Searles at St. Paul Minn. July 14 1893. 

CHARLES W. LEAVENS (Charles A., Penuel, etc.) m. Lillian Ernsper- 

ger at Cambria Wis., Sept. 13 1883: d. at Neenah, Oct. 28 1893. 
LILLIAN, b. Feb. 20 1862: 

Their children, 
Charles Willis, b. at Cambria, Dec. 6 1884: 
Benjamin FrankHn, b. at Menominee Mich., Aug. 25 1888: 
Ralph Noble, b. at Neenah Wis., Nov. 20 1892: 



IRA LEAVENS (Charles. Joseph, Joseph, John, John) m. Phalla Cobb 

: d. Jan. 18 1843. 
PHALLA, b. Jan. 13 1783: d. at Morgan, July 17 1866, 

Their children, 
Marson, b. Nov. 28 1808: 
Lucy, b. Dec. 25 1813: m. Dustin. 
Phalla, b. Nov. 15 1818: d. May 13 1839. 

Ira Leavens migrated from AVindsor at an early day, tarried a while 
in Montgomery, and finally settled in Morgan, Orleans Co., Vt. He was 
succeeded by a son Marscn— and that name is a distant echo of Pastor 
Marston Cabot of Thompson parish, the highly esteemed minister of early 
generations in Connecticut. The family in Morgan seems not to have 
spread widely. 

MARSON LEAVENS (Ira, Charles, Joseph, etc.) m. Eliza Morse: d. 

Feb. 16 1878. 
ELIZA, b. Jan. 27 1810: d. Aug. 2 1876. 



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Their children at Morgan, 

Charles, b. Sept. 12 1834: 

Moses, b. March 30 1836: 

Plialla, b. June 4 1838: m. Lemaii P. Brocks: d. Mar. 28 1899. 

Alma H., b. Apr. 2 1840: d. Sept. 1 1878. 

Elisabeth, b. Aug. 2 1843: d. May 19 1844. 

(1) 

CHARLES LEAVENS (Marson, Ira, Charles, etc.) m. Charlotte Allbee: 

d. March 12 1874. 
CHARLOTTE, b. Feb. 23 1839: d. May 31 1883. 

Their children, 
Fred Ira, b. May 4 1865: d. July 1901. 
Willie Parker, b. Jan. 4 1863: 
Ina Eliza, b. Mar, 1 1870: 

WILLIE PARKER LEAVENS (Charles, Marson, Ira, etc.) m. Margaret 

Eley, Dec. 3 1890: 
MARGARET, b. Feb. 14 1872: 

Their children, 
Ruth Alma, b. Oct. 13 1892: d. Feb. 7 1894. 
Arnold James, b. July 5 1895: 
Charlotte Bell, b. Feb. 21 1897: 
Julia Wilcox, b. June 6 1899: 
Geneva Mae, b. July 21 1901: 

(2) 

MOSES LEAVENS (Marson, Ira, Charles, etc.) m. Flora Marsh: 
FLORA, b. Dec. 5 1835: 

Their child, 
Ora Eugene, b. Nov. 25 1862: 

ORA EUGENE LEAVENS (Moses, Marsou, Irn. etc.) m. Attic Magoon: 

d. Apr. 4 1896. 
ATTIE, b. 1865. 

Their children, 
Harold Marson, b. June 27 1885: 
Ervin Doaii, b. Jan. 17 1887: 
Merle Ora, b. June 9 1890: 



98 THE LEAVENS NAME. 

3. 

CHARLES LEAVENS (Charles, Joseph, Joseph, John, John) m. Polly 

Wardner at Windsor: d. there Sept. 12 1862. 
POLLY, b. 1781: d. Jan. 8 1849. 

Their children, b. at Windsor. 
Frederick C, b. 1806: d. Mar. 16 1811. 

Paulina, b. March 29 1807: m. John Adams: d. May 15 1876. 
Mary, b. March 5 1811: m. Aretus Bailey May 16 1836: d. at Caldwell 

Wis. Sept. 30 1867. 
Charles, b. Aug. 4 1816: 

Charles Leavens, the second, passed his life in Vermont and was 
succeeded by a son, who removed to the West at an early day, as his 
family record shows. 

CHARLES LEAVENS (Charles, Charles, Joseph, etc.) m. Caroline M. 
Holt at Felchville Vt. May 12 1839: d. at Albert Lea Minn. March 

24 1892. 

Their children, 
Charles Welstead, b. at Windsor, Feb. 7 1840: 
Oliver Mervale, b. at Waterford Wis. Nov. 28 1845: 
Hattie Antoinette, b. Caldwell Wis. June 4 1853: d. Sept. 17 1870. 
Warburton Delano, b. Sept. 2 1855: d. Nov. 1879. 

(a) 

CHARLES WELSTEAD LEVENS (Charles, Charles, Charles, Joseph, 
Joseph, John, John) m. Rebecca B. Teachout at Eiigle Wis. Nov. 

25 1859: d. at Albert Lea Minn. 

Their children, 
Lora, b. at Waterford Wis., May 24 1863: 
Belle, b. at Waterford Wis., Dec. 6 1866: 
Charles, b. at Wabasha Minn. Apr. 15 1869: 
Nellie, b. at Albert Lea Minn. Mar. 9 1873: 
Wells, b. at Albert Lea Minn. Dec. 9 1875: 
Hezie, b. at Albert Lea Minn. Dec. 9 1875: d. Aug. 13 1876. 
Ruth, b. at Albert Lea Minn. May 16 1880: 

CHARLES LEVENS (Charles W., Charles, Charles, Charles, Joseph, Jo- 
seph, John, John) m. Grace Hayden, Madison Minn. Aug. 31 1893: 
Their child at Madison Minn., 
Marian, b. Dec. 26 1896: 



WINDSOR AND NORTHERN VERMONT. 99 

(b) 

OLIVER MBRVALE LEVBNS (Charles, Charlos, Charlps. Josepli. Jo- 
seph, John, John) m. Ida May Cuff at Red Wotid Falls Minn. 1887. 

Their children at Red Wood Falls. 
Mona, b. July 23 1888: 
Abbie, b. June 16 1890: 
Hattie, b. March 13 1892: 
Jessie May, b. Sept. 4 1894: 
Nettie, b. Aug. 30 1896: 



CALVIN LEAVENS (Charles, Joseph, Joseph, John. John) m. Lucy 

Woods at Reading 1807: d. at Rushford N. Y. May 5 1862. 
LUCY, : d. at Rushford, Aug. 17 1860. 

Their children, the first b. at Reading, the last at Rushford, the 
others at Windsor, 
Calvin Galusha, b. Dec. 8 1808: 
Grover, b. March 4 1811: 
Laura, b. Nov. 23 1812: ni. Edward B. Pratt, at Rushford, 1843: d. Apr. 

24 1891. 
Lyford, b. Feb. 26 1815: 

Lucy Lorain, b. March 9 1817: m. Giles H. Chapin. 
Daniel Woods, b. Feb. 13 1822: 
Louisa, b. Jan. 2 1830: m. Cenclaire Dayton. 

Calvin Leavens left Windsor about the year 1828, when his oldest 
eon -was a youth of twenty years, and settled in Rushford, Allegheny Co., 
N. Y. Three of his sons spent their lives in New York state; the fourth 
pushed on to tho West. 

(a) 

CALVIN GALUSHA LEAVENS (Calvin, Charles, Joseph, Joseph, John, 
John) m. Mary P. Richards Apr. 16 1834: d. Sept. 16 1888 in 
Michigan. 

MARY P., d. Jan. 1 1871 in Michigan. 

Their children, 
Frances, b. la^S: d. 1839. 
Ira M., b. 1837: d. 1840. 
Pauline, d. at six months. 

He m. (2) Mrs. Lucia Benjamin, who d. 1893. 



100 THE LEAVENS NAME. 

(b) 

GROVER LEAVENS (Calvin, Charles, etc.) m, Mahitable Roberts of 

Warsaw N. Y. in 1833: d. Dec. 16 1865. 
MAHITABLE, d. Oct. 1 1865. 

There were no children. 

ic) 

LYFORD LEAVENS (Calvin, Charletv, .Joseph, .Joseph, John. John) m. 
Myra Gordon Sept. 17 1837: d. Dec. 20 1875. 

Their children, at Rushford, 
Emily M., b. Aug. 18 1838: d. Nov. 15 1838. 
Eliza P., b. June 29 1840: d. Aug. 22 1898. 
Marion, b. July 2 1848: d. Oct. 10 1849. 
Willis Hamilton, b. Dec. 18 1854: 

WILLIS HAMILTON LEAVENS (Lyford, Calvin, Charles, etc.) m. Idn 

Morrow at Rushford, Sept. 12 1876: 
IDA, b. Nov. 12 1855: 

Their children at Rushford: 
Inez L., b. June 4 1877: 
Edward, b. Aug. 2 1879: 
Donald Walter, b. Aug. 22 1895: 

(d) 

DANIEL WOODS LEAVENS (Calvin, Charles, etc.) m. Mary L. Burr 

Jan. 3 1845: d. Mar. 14 1893. 
MARY L.. b. Jan. 15 1826: d. July 16 1900. 

Their children, 
Charles Andrew, b. at Rushford, N. Y., Dec. 2 1848: 
Walter Calvin, b. at Rushford N. Y. May 29 1852: d. Mar. 20 1893. 
Edward, b. at Oraniel N. Y. Dec. 21 1857: d. Feb. 12 1878. 
George Fox, b. Horseheads N. Y. Oct. 29 1865: 

CHARLES ANDREW LEAVENS (Daniel W., Calvin, Charles, etc.) ni. 

Mary Amelia Burr, March 1875: 
MARY AMELIA, b. Feb. 10 1849: d. June 7 1884. 

He m. (2) Mabel Viola Richardson, June 11 1896. 
MABEL v., b. in Mass. May 13 1867: 

Their child at Pasadena. Cal. 
Donna Richardson, b. May 19 18C9: 



WINDSOR AND NORTHERN VERMONT. 101 

GEORGE FOX LEAVENS (Daniel W., Calvin, Charles, etc.) lu. Annie 

Sophia Harris June 25 189(5: 
ANNIE SOPHIA, b. iu Mass. Sept. 27 1864: 

Their children in Pasadena, 
Dorothy Harris, b. Nov. 14 1807: d. Sept. 4 1898. 
Phoebe Harris, b. May 11 1902: 

5. 

DARIUS LEAVENS (Charle:,, .Joseph, Joseph, Jolin, John) m. Clarissa 
Whiting at Windsor: d. tliere Apr. 14 1860. 

Their children, b. at Windsor, 
Clarissa, b. Sept. 15 1812: m. John B. Benjamin: d. at Sheboygan Falls, 

Wis., Nov. 9 1885. 
Darius, b. Sept, 5 1814: 
Frederick C, b. Oct. 9 1822: 

Darius Leavens, the son of Charles, spent his lifetime in Windsor, 
but his sons took up the march westward. 

(a) 

DARIUS LEAVENS (Darius, Charles, Joseph, Joseph, John, John) m. 

Huldah M. Bayley in W. Windsor May 18 1848: d. at Sheboygan 

Falls Wis. July 17 1868. 
HULDAH M., b. at Hartland Vt. June 14 1816: d. Mar. 8 1899. 

Their children at Sheboygan Falls, 
Fred Austin, b. Aug. 10 1849: 

Hannah Clara, b. Sept. 21 18.52: ni. B. B. Putnam, 1879. 
Almon Whiting, b. Sept. 29 1854: 

FRED AUSTIN LEAVENS (Darius, Darius, Ciiarles, Joseph, Joseph, 
John, John) m. Mary Dennison at Sheboygan Falls: d. there Oct. 
28 1875. 

MARY D., b. at Sheb. Falls, Aug. 2 1847. 

Their children at Sheb. Falls, 
Lottie Louise, b. Sept. 6 1873: 
Fred Darius, b. March 29 1875: 

ALMON WHITING LEAVENS (Darius, Darius, Cliarles, Jos. ph, J.>- 

seph, John, John) m. Ida Lumsden July 28 1883: 
IDA, b. at Sheboygan Fails, Aug. 10 1861: 

Their children at Sheb. Falls, 



102 THE LEAVENS NAME. 

Asher Lumsden, b. May 24 1884: 

AUce Ida, b. April 6 1887: 

Burton Almon, b. June 10 1897: 

Herbert, b. May 29 1898: d. June 2 1898. 

(b) 

FREDERICK C. LEAVENS (Darius, Charles, Joseph, etc.) m. Sarah A. 

Mudge, Sept. 9 1857: d. Jan. 1902. 
SARAH A., b. at Mount Holly Vt. 1838: 

Their children at Sheboygan Falls, 
Clara, b. Aug. 1859: m. Benj. Davenport, '1878. 
Ella, b. Aug. 1862: m. William Bobbins, 1883. 
Elmer, b. Feb. 1865: 
Hattie M., b. June 1868: m. Charles Shultz 1892. 

Frederick C. Leavens served in the Artillery near Washington from 
Oct., 1864, till the close of the War. 

ELMER LEAVENS (Frederick C, Darius, Charles, etc.) m. Mary Shaft- 
ner, 1894, at Port Washington Wis. 

Their* child there, 
Charles Frederick, b. Oct. 1898: 



WINDSOR AND LUZERNE. N. Y. 103 



To Windsor, Vt. (additional) and thence to Luzerne, N. Y., and to the West. 

lu the Killiugly circle there moved the first Darius Leavens, another 
grand-son of Justice Joseph. We have spoken of his family and of his 
services in the Revolution. An incident comes down illustrating the 
times. His boy had been "to the village" and had heard that the "con- 
tinental money" had become worthless. Returning home, he found his 
father selling a yoke of oxen, fixing part (if the price in money. The 
boy ventured to tell his father wliat he had heard and was curtly instructed 
to "mind his business". The sale went on— "and all father got for the 
oxen was one little mouldy old cow; and I was glad of it"— is the way 
the boy gave vent to his wounded feelings! Both this Darius and his wife 
had died when the oldest son of the numerous family was but sixteen. 
We are to trace the four boys. 



Rufus, the oldest, was sent to his uncle Charles inWindsor. There 
he acquired a home and lived to old age. One who remi-mbers him gives 
this description— "He was a fine looking man with snow-white hair and 
the dark brilliant blue eyes which belonged to almost all the older onea 
of the family whom I have ever known". 

RUFUS LEAVENS (Darius, Joseph, Joseph, John, John) m. (1) Adah 
Lee: d. March 23 1853 at West Windsor Vt. aged 84 years. 

Their child was Sophia, who died Feb. 2, 1881, at the age of 86 
years, 11 months. 

He m. (2) Hannah Clark. 
HANNAH, d. Nov. 1 1850 aged 78 years. 

Their children, 
A daughter who d. in infancy. 
Orange, b. at West Windsor May 31 1801: 

ORANGE LEAVENS (Rufus, Darius, etc.) m. Mehetabel B. Gale Jan. 

1 1828: d. Sept. 4 1884. 
MEHETABEL, d. Jan. 28 1S81, aged 71 years 8 months. 

Their children at West Windsor, 
Lestina, who died in infancy. 
Mary Ann, b. July 13 183G: m. John W. Cady. 

Orange Leavens was a citizen of Windsor all his days, and in his 
turn had a seat in the Legislature of Vermont. 

His daughter, Mrs. Cady, has preserved lively reminiscences of her 
Leavens ancestry. 



104 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



Her son, Dauiel Leavens Cady, received the degree Ph. B. in the 
Class of 1886, University of Vermont, and is a lawyer in New York City. 

Leavens Harlow Cady is a child of her other son, Frederick W. 
Cady, a lawyer of Indianapolis. 

Before our attention is withdrawn from Windsor, it will be well to 
note the intimate relation between the Leavens families and the Bucks. 
Ellen Leavens, sister of Rufus, was married to Benjamin Buck Nov. 
25, 1790. She d. Feb. 23, 1851: he d. Oct. 22, 1857. Their children were: 
Benjamin, b. Nov. 10 1791: d. June 29 1880. 
Martha, b. July 16 1794: d. Feb. 9 1845. 
Hannah, b. Dec. 15 1796: d. Apr. 8 1858. 
Ellen, b. Nov. 6 1802: d. Feb. 24 1865. 
Rufus, b. June 2 1805: d. Oct. 22 1891. 
Dexter, b. May 26 1810: d. Aug. 9 1896. 
Caroline, b. May 22 1812: d. June 12 1851. 

Mary Leavens, daughter of Charles, therefore cousin of Ellen, was 
married to Benoni Buck, Dec. 5, 1794. He had been b. at Killingly 
Nov. 23, 1769, and d. at South Reading, Vt., Nov. 13, 1821. (After his 
death the widow m. (2) Capt. Aaron Townsend of Reading Nov. 17, 1824, 
and d. June 26, 1826:) 

The children of Benoni and Mary Buck b. at So. Reading, 
Elisha, b. May 18 1796. 
Charles, b. Sept. 6 1797: 
Benoni, b. Oct. 24 1799: 
John Leavens, b. Jan. 1 1802: 
Jo&eph Warren, b. July 4 1807: 

John Leavens Buck, a lawyer, received the honorary degree A. M. 
from the University of Vermont in the year 1850, when his son, John 
Hildreth Buck took his A. B. in course. 



Willard Leavens, the second son, of soldier Darius, handed down the 
tradition of the early death of his father and the scattering of the chil- 
dren. How he was cared for we know not. It is probable that he fol- 
lowed in the footsteps of his brother, for at the age of 23 he married 
In Whitiugham, Vt. In the year 1799 he bought a farm at Fairfield, 
on the banks of the Hudson, now Luzerne, N. Y. Here he dwelt till 
his death, often expressing the wish to re-visit Killingly, but never 
doing so. 

WILLARD LEAVENS (Darius, .Joseph, Joseph, John, John) m. Deborah 
Ransom Sept. 14 1794: d. at Luzerne, Apr. 18 1832. 



WINDSOR AND LUZERNE, N. Y. 105 

DEBORAH, b. Sept. 1774: d, at Luzerne, Oct. 1 1861. 

Their cliildren, the last four said to have beeu born at Luzerne, 
Elizabeth, b. July 15 1795: m. Zina Cowles: d. Nov. 20 1875. 
Thurlow, b. Apr. 29 1797: 

Mary, b. June 17 1799: ui. Hiram Wilson Mar. 17 1829: d. May 25 1842. 
Darius, b. Feb. 28 1802: d. by lightning stroke, Aug. 1 182(5. 
Harriet, b. Apr. 13 1804: m. Henry Rogers: d. Feb. 4 1874. 
Katherine, b. Mar. 23 1807: in. Reubt'n Wells Jan. 1 1828: d. Jan. 8 1877. 

THURLOW LEAVENS (Wilhird, Darius, Joseph, Joseph, John. John) 

m. Seliua Rockwell, June 4 1831: d. Dec. 11 1882. 
SELINA, b. Feb. 12 1812: d. Aug. 13 1877. 

Their children at Luzerne, 
Charlotte Rockwell, b. Mar. 20 1832: d. Dec. 2 1847. 
Darius Willard, b. Aug. 4 1833: 
Jeremy Rockwell, b. Jan. 16 1835: 
Harmon Rockwell, b. Dec. 31 1837: 
Deborah E., b. May 19 1840: d. Aug. 18 1897. 
William Wallace, b. Aug. 10 1842: 
Hrnry Rogers, b. Aug. 12 1844: 
Elizabeth Louise, b. Dec. 17 1846: m, W. W. D. Jefifers, Sept. 25 1866: 

their .sons, W. W. Jr. and Henry Leavens Jeffers. 
Thurlow Charles, b. Sept. 30 1848. 
Daniel Sweet, b. July 22 1851: 

DARIUS WILLARD LEAVENS (Thurlow, Willard, Darius, etc.) ni. 
Sarah Kenyon Apr. 7 1862: d. Dec. 15 1864: 

Their daughter m. J. J. Dayton. 

JEREMY ROCKWELL LEAVENS (Thurlow, Willard, Darius, etc.) m. 
Alida Kip, Dec. 3 1868: d. Apr. 13 1875. 

Their child, at Glens Falls, 
Walter Price, b. May 30 1871: 

HARMON ROCKWELL LEAVENS (Thurlow, Willard, Darius, etc.) m. 

Jane Aldrich, May 30 1864: d. Dec. 9 1900. 
JANE, b. Dec. 26 1839: d. Nov. 21 1901. 

Their children at (J lens FalJa, 
Jessie Aldrich, b. Sept. 14 1871: 
Louise Rockwell, b. Dec. 13 1874: 

WILLIAM WALLACE LEAVENS (Thurlow, Willard, Darius, etc.) m. 
Jessie Decker, Oct. 5 1868. 



106 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



Their children at Glens Falls, 

William Wallace, b. March 10 1871: 
Gertrude, b. Feb. 15 1881: 

THURLOW CHARLES LEAVENS (Thurlow, Willard, Darius, etc.) m. 
(1) Mary Conery June 6 1873: 

Their child, at Glens Falls, 
Lena, b. May 6 1877: 

He m. (2) Fannie Waldron, Feb. 12, 1884. 

WALTER PRICE LEAVENS (Jeremy R., Thurlow. Willard, Darius, 
etc., m. Beatrice Rosecrans Cheney Sept. 14 1899. 



Thurlow, the third son of soldier Darius in Klllingly, is still more 
obscure than his brothers in respect to his childhood. But he evidently 
followed their lead, for he found a wife "either in western Vermont or 
eastern New York". He set up a home on the banks of the Hudson 
near his brother at Luzerne. There apparently the children were born. 
But the family repioved about the year 1815 to Pittsford in western 
New York. Again, after the death of the father and the son Oren, the 
family drifted to Michigan. We suppose the name Leavens is practically 
extinct upon this line; and we are indebted to Mr. Thurlow Leavens Pierce 
for the data which we compress into a single record. 

THURLOW LEAVENS (Darius, Joseph, Joseph, John, John) m. Su- 
sannah Whitney, Feb. 18 1802: d. Oct. 9 1827 in Pittsford N. Y. 
SUSANNAH, b. 1771: d. July 20 1848 in Attica Mich. 

Their children, 
Polly, b. Jan. 10 1803: m. Sumner Pierce in Pittsford July 25 1828: d. 

June 22 1874. 
Oren, b. May 8 1804: d. in Pittsford, Oct. 15 1826. 

Darius, b. Apr. 21 1811: d. Feb .6 1875, leaving daughters but no sons. 
Charlotte, b. Sept. 4 1813: m. Hedges: d. Jan. 18 1881. 

4. 

There is a shred of evidence that Abel, fourth son of soldier Darius, 
was in Windsor in the year 1799; but he disappeared under the phrase 
"went West" and nothing more can be said of him. 



THE LEVINGS BRANCH. 107 



To Walpole, N. H., and Thence in Many Directions. 

We have observed how Noah Leavins (son of JOSEPH) at his 
premature decease on Killingly Hill, 1751, left young children; nud we 
have traced his son Abel to Oxford, Mass., and thence in 1772 to Wal- 
pole, N. H. There was he living during the Revolution. His son Noah 
served, first in the independent forces of the Colony and afterward in 
the "Continental Army". Tlie soldier's name is conspicuous in the Revo- 
lutionary rolls of New Hampshire, where it in sometimes written LEV- 
INGS. Perhaps this is the fact which led the entire stock descending 
from the Walpole home to adopt that spelling. 

The father died in 1793; the commission for appraising his estate 
was issued Oct. 17 of that year. His life-work was ended at the early 
age of fifty-two. The public records show that the little property was 
distributed to the four children, Noah, Rebecca, Abel and Elijah. The 
share of Elijah was sold by him to Constantiue Oilman in 1795 for £18. 
Rebecca, who had married Ebenezer Wellington of Sturbridge, Mass., 
sold her share to her brother Abel, in Feb., 1795, for £17 5s; and next 
month he re-sold it with his own share, making 17 acres, to S. Weir for 
£36. This would seem to end the Walpole home. We are to follow 
these three sons and their posterity as closely as we are able. 

Noah (Abel) appears in Westmoreland, which is adjacent to Wal- 
pole. There some of his children were l>orn, and all of them for aught 
we know. It is clear that he removed to Troy, N. Y., early in the nine- 
teenth century. But there was still another move later in life, which 
took him to Western New York to die. We trace the course of two 
SODS, but two others are lost to our sight. 



I. 

NOAH LEIAVENS or LEVINGS (Abel, Noah, Joseph, John, John) m. 

Mitis : d. at I^ockport N. Y. Nov. 17 1841. 

MITIS, b. ? : d. 1837. 

Their children, bearing the name LEVINGS. The two first named 
were born at Westmoreland N. U.; of the others we can say nothing. 
Charles, b. Sept. 8 1793: 
Noah, b. Sept. 29 1796: 
Royal, b. 
Elhanan, b. 

Laura, b. : m. Downing. 

Lucy, b. : m. Duulap. 



108 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



(1.) 

CHARLES LEVINGS (Noah, Abel, Joseph, John, John) m, Gertrude 
Hoatling: d. at New Richmond Wis. May 19 1879. 

GERTRUDE, b. in N. Y. state Sept. 19 1799: d. at Fordham Wis. May 
26 1863. 

Their children, 
Noah, b. in Yates Go. N. Y. May 30 1824: 
Mary Ann, b. : m. Robei't Corbin. 

NOAH LEVINGS (Charles, Noah, Abel, Noah, Joseph, John, John) xxi 
Amarilla Rosebush, at Alfred N. Y. Oct. 1 1844: d. at New Rich- 
mond Wis, Dec. 20 1870. 

AMARILLA, b. in Sydney Out. Feb. 15 1828: 

Their children, five in Andover, N. Y.; three in Amity, N. Y.; one 
in Pendleton, N. Y.; and two in Friendship, Wis. 
Charles Chester, b. Aug. 10 1845: d. July 9 1861. 
Ellen Ada, b. Jan. 29 1846: d 1846. 
George Sydney, b. May 18 1848: d Aug. 31 1861. 
Erwin Noah. b. July 7 1850: 
Oliver Franklin, b. July 21 1852: 
Elida A., b. Nov. 28 1854: d. Jan. 6 1864. 
Chloe F., b. Dec. 4 1856: m. William F. Courtright. 
Nathanael Asbury, b. July 12 1858: 
John Calvin, b. March 12 1861: 
Rosetta A., b. Dec. 26 1868: 
William Arthur, b. July 16 1869: 

Noah Levings served in the Union army from 1864, incurring the 
loss of his health, so that he died five years after the close of the War. 

ERWIN NOAH LEVINGS (Noah, Charles, Noah, AbeK etc.) m. Mary 

Levine Phillips, at Boardman Wis., July 1 1884: 
MARY LEVINE, b. May 4 1850 at Hillsdale Mich: 

Their child in New Richmond, 
Martha Leviua, b. Sept. 9 1886: 

OLIVER FRANKLIN LEVINGS (Noah, Charles, etc.) m. Sarah Matilda 

Hanson, Sept. 12 1880: 
SARAH MATILDA, b. in Norway, Jan. 7 1865: 

Their children at New Richmond, 
James Arthur, b. Dec. 3 1881: 
Bertha A., b. Aug. 27 1883: 
Erwin Frank, b. July 6 1889: 



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NATHANAEL ASBURY LEVINGS (Noah, Charles, etc.) m. Anuie 
Castlcman at Boardman, Dec. 30 1885: 
ANNIE, b. in Ontario, June 20 1861: 

Their child in Hulburt Dak. 
John Erwin, b. Nov. 29 1885: 

JOHN CALVIN LEVINGS (Noah, Charles, etc.) m. Henrietta M. Han- 
son, Mar. 16 1886 at New Richmond: 
HENRIETTA M., b. in Norway, Mar. 15 1867: 

Their child in Dak., ' 

Charles Sydney, b. Apr. 12 1887: 

NOAH LEVINGS (Noah, Abel, Noah, Joseph, John, John) m. Sarah Clark 

At Amsterdam N. Y. Dec. 11 1820: d. at Cincinnati O. Jan. 9 1849. 

SARAH, b. at Amsterdam Sept. 5 1797: d. at New York City, Dec. 4 1863. 

Their children, 
Noah Clark, b. at Middlebury Vt. Dec. 9 1822: d. 1823. 
Noah Clark, b. at Burlington Vt. March 4 1824: 
Francis Asbury, b. at Monkton Vt. June 17 1826: d 1826. 
George Suckley, b. at N. Y. City, Feb. 27 1828: d. 1865 unmarried. 
Charles Wesley, b. at Brooklyn July 18 1829: d. 1829. 
■Wilbur Fisk, b. at N. Haven Conn. Apr. 23 1832: d. 1833. 
Martha Ann, b. at Troy N. Y. Apr. 7 1835: d. 1840. 
Sarah, b. at Troy N. Y. Apr. 7 1835: d. 1836. 

NOAH CLARK LEVIN(5S (Noah. Noah. Abel. Noah, Joseph. John, John) 
m. Louise L. Allen, N. Y. City Nov. 11 1857. 

Their children, b. at N. Y. City, 
eiara Sherwood, b. Sept. 13 1858: m. Alvan H. Warren ,1883. 
Allen, b. Jan. 4 1863: d. 1894. 

NOAH LEVINGS, D. D. 

He was a .son of the soldier Noah, born in Westmoreland, N. H. Ac- 
cording to the published memoir he was sent from home to earn his live- 
lihood at the age of eight or nine years. At 16 he was apprenticed to a 
blacksmith in Troy, N. Y., whither his parents had removed. His bi- 
ographer in relating Iiis religious experience credits the parents for hav- 
ing trained their children to a strict observance of the Sabbath, so that 
the son had a tender conscience in that regard. Determining to become a 
regular attendant upon the House of God, "all Churches were alike to 
him". He therefore resolved to make "a circuit of visilali<ms of nil the 
Churches of the city". His fifth visit brought him to a Methodist lOpisco- 



110 THE LEAVENS NAME. 

pal place of worship. Here he fixed his choice, yet "he remained for a 
long time in most distressing (religious) uncertainty". He joined the 
Methodist Society as a probationer in 1813. "It was not till the fifth 
of June 1815 that he was enabled to rejoice in his long sought blessing. 
On that day — a day ever memorable in his history — as he was returning 
from private devotions, where he had been wrestling with CJod for the 
Avitness of the Spirit, light broke in upon his soul and he could exclaim 
'Abba Father' with an unwavering tongue". His doubts were all gone". 
"A divine assurance — the gift of the Holy Spirit — reigned in his soul and 
filled him with unspeakable joy". 

He was licensed as a local preacher when a little more than twenty- 
one years old; and was received to the New York Conference, Mar., 1818. 
He was immediately appointed to what was called the Leyden circuit, 
embracing a large section of southern Vermont and northern Massa 
chusetts. 

Next year he had the Pownal circuit; Montgomery (N. Y.) in 1820, 
when he married; and Saratoga in 1821. He accepted it as a hardship 
when he was sent to northern Vermont the next year. His circuits were 
Middlebury, 1822; Burlington, 1823 4; Charlotte, 1825 6, and he traveled 
extensively from these centres. Then his ministry was transferred to 
the city; New York, 1827 8; Brooklyn, 1829 30; New Haven. 1831 2. 
Next he returned to the scenes of his conversion, Albany, 1833; Troy, 
1834 5: and Schenectady, 1836 7. Here he enjoyed the friendship of the 
distinguished Dr. Nott, President of Union College and received the 
degree of Doctor of Divinity. He was settled in Troy and Albany from 
1838 to 1842, and transferred to New York City in 1843. The next year 
he was elected financial Secretary of the American Bible Society, and 
continued till his death in 1849. 

His life was thus crowded with intense activity. His biographer 
says, "Few men have been more generally beloved within the sphere 
of their labors, and few have been more sincerely lamented in their death 
than Dr. Levings. His manner was affable and winning; his heart was 
warm and generous; his mind naturally fertile and lively, and stored 
with an in<"xhaustible fund of anecdote, coupled with a reidy and re- 
tentive memory, a brilliant imagination, a striking aptness at comparistm 
and fine colloquial powers, made him a most delightful companion in 
social life. His tongue was like the pen of a ready writer; and he was 
never at a loss for the appropriate language to give utterance to his 
thoughts." 

Some one said of him, "Brother Levings was born with words on 
his tongue". 

He was on an extensive tour in the south-west in the interests of 
the Bible Society, and subject to extraordinary exposures, when his health 




Rev. Noah 1.i:vings, D. D. 



From fit) engraviiiK. wliich wa-^ from an iirifiinal iiaiiiliiii; by .lame!; Pine. 



THE LEVINGS BRANCH. Ill 

gave out. He turned his face homeward, longing only to reach his family. 
But he was obliged to stop in Cincinnati, where in the house of faithful 
friends he died Jan. 9, 1849. 

II. 

.ABEL LEAVENS or LBVINGS (Abel, Noah, .Joseph, John, John) m. nt 
Walpole N. H. July 10 1791, Hannah, dauphter of Henry (or, 
Samuel) Marshall and his wife Mary Weir: died (it is said at 
Sackett's Harbor N. Y.) June 1 1845. 

HANNAH, b. in Swansea N. H., Apr. 10 1773: d. July 29 1853. 

Their children, 
Calvin D., b. Aug. 13 1792: d. June 1813. 
Sylvia E., b. July 11 1794: d. single. 

Fanny, b. May 15 1796: m. Heber Blanchard (at Lancaster N. H.). 
Abel, b. Aug. 24 1797: 

Chester Weir, b. June 5 1799: (others say 1800) 
John M., b. May 2 1802: d. Jan. 25 1836: without children. 
Hannah, b. Apr. 9 1804: m. Clark Flint: d. at Attica N. Y. 
Esther Rebecca, b. March 27 1807: m. Levi Willard, Oct. 20 1824. 
Tryphenia D., b. Jan. 5 1810: 
Harriet S., b. May 27 1811: d. Apr. 1812. 

Obadiah Kendall, b. Nov. 25 1812: (others say Oliver Kendall) 
Louisa, b. Aug. 13 1814: m. Love (at Sacketts Harbor); d. Nov. 20 1864. 
An infant d. at 4 days, Oct. 1815: 
Mary E., b. Jan. 6 1817: d. single 
An infant, died, Apr. 1819: 

The birth-days in this table are given from a memorandum supplied 
by Mr. Charles Levings of Chicago, having been given to him by his 
father. The marriage of Abel Leavins and Hannah Marshall appears 
on the records of the Congregational Church of Walpole in the hand- 
writing of the Rev. Fessenden, the pastor at that date. There have 
been romantic legends afloat concerning the ancestor of the Marshall 
family; but they disagree so wildly that it is impossible to reconcile 
them. A nephew of Hannah was living in Walpole until recent years 
and he had personal recollections of the Leavens relations. 

The Abel, head of this family, appears to have been living iu John- 
son's Gore, Vt., in 1795. He then bought his sister's share of the father's 
estate in Walpole, and re-sold it with his own. A tradition has it that 
the son Abel was born in Westmoreland and the son Chester Weir in 
Acton, N. H. The man was taxed in Westmoreland, N. H., from 1811 
to 1818. But there appears to have been a removal, for the memorandum 
referred to above says that "the original records were burned in the 
dwelling at Lancaster". 



112 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



There is a tradition that the Oliver Kendall (or Obadiah) went to 
California in 1849 and was living there as late as 1890. In that con- 
nection a note on the "memorandum" :s suggestive. It says, "Taken 
down at Gold Run, Placer Co. California, July 18 1879. C. W. Lev- 
ings". As for the rest, the scattering of the family may be inferred from 
the notes added to the dates of birth. The items have been gathered 
here and there and are not guaranteed. We follow the family in the 
two branches, Abel, third of the name; and Chester Weir. 

(1.) 

Copy from the fly-leaf of the Family Bible of Abel Levings. 

In the possession of Frederick Willard Hamilton Batavia, N. Y. 
"Abel Iveavens was born Aug. the 24th A. D. 1797 
Sophronia Leavens was born May the 10th A. D. 1796 (1794) 
Calvin W. Leavins was born June 24th 1822. 
Willard P. Leavens was bom Jan. the 7th A. D. 1824. 
Harriet S. Leavens was born March the 7th 1826 and died March 15th. 
Emily P. Leavens was born Feb. 16 1827 and died Jan. the 24th 1832 

aged 5 years lacking 16 days. 
Laura A. Leavens born June 5th 1829. 
liucia Ann Reed Leavings born May the 3rd 1832. 
George Edward Levings born June 27 1834. 
Jared Williams born April 30th 1840 in Alexander Genesse Co. N. Y." 

We give this family again iu the exact language of Mrs. Hamilton, one 
of its members, written in 1887. 

"Father's name was Abel Levings born Aug. 24th 1797 in West- 
moreland N. H. He died Nov. 9th 1867 in Bethany Genesee Co.; buried 
at the Bethany Centre cemetery. He was named after his father and 
grand-father: Westmoreland was their home. He was married in Lan- 
caster, Coos Co (N. H.) to Sophronia Willard Nov. 29 1820. She died 
Oct. 17th 1872 and was buried beside father. She was born May 10th 
1796 in Mass. 

Calvin Weir Lovings born June 24th 1822. 
Willard Pinckney Levings born Jan. 7th 1824. Died in Danlanelle 

Ark. Nov. 13th 1846. Aged 23 years. 
Harriet S. Levings, born March 7th, died 15th 1826. 
Emily Parke Levings, born Feb. 16th 1827. Died Jan. 24th 1832. 
Laura A. Levings, born June 4th 1829. Married to William L. Hamil- 
ton May 2nd 1849. 
Lucia Ann Reed Levings, born May 3rd 1832. Married Feb. 1853 to 

Dwight Hatch. 
George Edward Levings born June 27th 1834. 



THE LEVINGS BRANCH. 118 

Jared Williams Leviugs born in Alexander Genesee C5o. N. Y. April 30 
18J0. Married to Maria A. Bostwick April 23rd 1863." 

CALVIN WEIR LEVINGS (Abel, Abel, Abel, Noah, Josiph, John, John) 
m. Esther Susannah Davis at Mount Morris N. Y.. Feb. 5 184.j: 

.1. at Chicago Jan. 12 ISO'J. 
ESTHER, S. b. at Newbury Eng. Nov. 30 1826: 

Their children, two at Muunt Morris, one at Rochester, and three 
at Rockville Ind. 
Esther Henrietta, b. May 28 1846: m. Albert B. Williams Nov. 15 1866. 
Frederick Weir, b. Dec. 11 1847: 
Charles, b. Dec. 2 1852: 
George Edward, b. Jan. 10 1850: 
William Hamilton, b. Sept. 15 1859: 
Calvin W^ir, b. Oct. 5 1864: d. Dec. 23 1869. 

Calvin Weir Lcvings after obtaining a good education began the 
study of law with Scott Lord of Mount Morris, N. Y., and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1843. In 1845 he formed a connection with a bank- 
ing house in Cleveland, O. Afterward he removed to Rockville, Ind., and 
established the Bank of Rockville. About two years later he estab- 
lished the Parke County Bank, in which he officiated eight years until 
it was changed to the First National. Meanwhile he had established 
the Edgar Co. Bank at Paris. 111., where he located in 1865. He op- 
erated this Bank until 1874, when he resigned the presidency, though 
maintaining a connection with the institution. He subsequently removed 
his family and business interests to Chicago. 

The family record is supplied by Mr. William Hamilton Levings of 
Minneapolis. 

FREDERICK WEIR LEV1X(!S (Calvin Weir, Abel, Abel, etc.) m. 
Julia A. Ross, at Chicago, Mar. 12 1874: d. at Paris 111. Oct. 7 1877. 

Their children at Paris 111., 
Frederick Ross. b. Feb. 22 1875: 
Harold Weir, b. Apr. 10 1876: d. March 8 1879. 
Stella, b. Nov. 8 1875: 

FREDERICK ROSS LBVINfJS (Frederick Weir, Charles Weir. Abel, 

etc.) m. Maude T. C^jsad, Oct. 25 1899: 
MAUDE T. b. in Huron N. Y. Aug. 7 1881: 

Their child at Chicago. 
Frederick Ross, b. Jan. 24 1903: 



lU THE LEAVENS NAME. 



CHARLES LBVINGS (Calvin W., Abel, Abel, etc.) m. Agnes McCall 
at Canton 111. Nov. 20 1877: 

Their children at Canton, 
Mark McCall, b. Feb. 19 1881: 
Louis Raymond, b. Oct. 26 1884: 

Charles Levings, Civil and Consulting Engineer in Chicago, is a 
graduate of Cornell University in the Class of 1873; his sons are students 
in the Armour Institute of Technology. 

GEORGE EDWARD LEVINGS (Calvin W., Abel, etc.) m. Mary E. 
Reed at Chicago Sept. 7 1882: d. at El Paso Texas March 20 1897. 

Their child at Chicago, 
Sherburne Davis, b. July 30 1883: 

WILLIAM HAMILTON LEVINGS (Calvin W., Abel, Abel, etc.) m. 
Eleanor Y. Van Deusen, at Paris 111. Sept. 15 1881: 

Their children at Paris (the third at Minneapolis) 
Mary Read, b. June 26 1882: 
William Seymour, b. Jan. 26 1885: 
Margaret Esther, b. Apr. 10 1888: 



GEORGE EDWARD LBVINGS (Abel, Abel, Abel, Noah, Joseph, John, 

John) m. Sarah Sandford at Paris 111. June 18 1858: 
SARAH, b. June 18 1837 at "the old farm" near Vermillion III.: 

Their children at Paris, 
Calvin Sandford, b. May 27 1859: d. Aug. 30 1860. 
Willard Foster, b. Dec. 17 1860: 

Sarah, b. May 12 1864: m. John W. Clark, June 18 1890. 
Esther Eleanor, b, June 8 1867: d. May 15 1895. 
Edward, b. March 4 1871: 
John Algernon, b. Dec. 11 1872: 
Charles Sanford, b. July 10 1876: 
Franklin Smith, b. Oct. 17 1878: d. March 6 1886. 

The home of this family still remains at Paris. 111. Mr. Levings 
says, "I am informed that my name was the first in my father's family 
to be spelled "Levings". I was bom in Lancaster, N. H., June 27, 1834. 
My father's name was Abel Levings as he spelled it in later life or 
after I knew about it. My mother's name was Sophronia Willard, a 
descendant of Maj. Simon Willard of Horsmonden, England, who arrived 
in Boston, May 1634." 

George Levings Clark is a grand-child, b. Nov. 26, 1892. 



THE LEVINGS BRANCH. 115 



WILLARD FOSTER LEVINGS (George E., Abel, etc.) m. Ella Gardner 

Hammond, Apr. 29 1891: 
ELLA G., b. Apr. 29 1866 in N. Y. City. 

Their children at Paris, 
Doris Hammond, b. Feb. 26 1895: 
Marcia, b. Aug. 25 1903: 
Lucia, b. Aug. 25 1903: 

EDWARD LEVINGS (George, E., Abel, etc.) m. Norah Burnett, Nov. 

22 1899: 
NORAH, b. June 6 1874 near Redmon 111. 

JOHN ALGERNON LEVINGS (George E., Abel, etc.) m. Clara Dale 

Pieratt June 12 1901: 
CLARA D., b. Nov. 1 1873 at Ezel, Ky. 

Their child at Paris, 
Nelson Trimble, b. July 27 1903: 

JARED WILLIAMS LEVINGS (Abel. Abel, Abel. Noah. Joseph, John 
John) m. Maria Aletta Bostwick at Bethany N. Y. Apr. 23 1863: 

Their children, the first at Cincinnati, the others at Washington, Ind. 
Jennie, b. Jan. 20 1866: d. 1870. 
Frank Austin, b. July 7 1871: 
William Abel, b. Apr. 6 1875: 
Walter Bostwick, b. Oct. 25 1881: 

(2.) 

CHESTER WEIR LEVINGS (Abel, Abel, Noah, Joseph, John, John) 
ra. Maria Reed at Brookfield Vt. Dec. 10 1829: d. at Randolph Vt. 
June 5 1868. 

MARIA, b. at Brookfield Oct. 5 1804: d. at Willinmstown Vt. Feb. 22 
1876. 

Their children, 
Charles Wesley, b. at Surry, N. H., June 10 1832: 
Julia Ellen, b. at Grantham N. H., May 25 1837: m. Alonzo G. Tuell, 

Jan 28 1868. 
Wilbur Fisk, b. at Sandwich N. H., Jan. 18 1844: 

Chester Weir Levings was an itinerant Methodist minister, of whom 
pleasant memories lingered long in the minds of those who had known 
and heard him. Some of the places where he served in the states of 
New Hampshire and Vermont are indicated in the family record here 
presented, but they are a few only, since the good woman, his wife, 
used to say that in her married life she had "moved" thirty-two times. 



116 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



CHARLES WESLEY LEVINGS (Chester Weir, Abel, etc.) m. Margaret 
B. Headington at Jacksonville 111. Aug. 2 1859: d. at Oshkosh 
Wis., Nov. 3 1899. 

MARGARET, B., b. July 30 1837: 

Their children at Jacksonville, 
Florence M., b. Sept. 27 1860: 
Luna, b. Apr. 5 1862: d. Aug. 1863. 
Leroy L., b. Jan. 11 1865: 
Nellie W.. b. Nov. 27 1869: 
Charlotte M., b. May 12 1871: 
William Headington, b. Aug. 29 1873: 
Dollie J., b. May 27 1875: 

Charles Wesley Levings was a teacher in the schools of Ohio and 
Illinois for thirty-four years. His children are said to be now living on 
the Pacific coast. 

WILBUR FISK LEVINGS (Chester Weir, Abel, etc.) m. Zelma A. 

Perrin at Williamstown Vt. Dec. 7 1870: 
ZELMA A., b. at Williamstown, Jan. 25 1843: 

Their children at Williamstown, 
Luna Flora, b. Mar. 29 1873: in Cincinnati. 

Emma Perrin, b. Feb. 29 1876: m. Gilbert A. Comstock, June 27 1900. 
Harriet Maria, b. May 2 1877: m. Curtis A. Comstock, Sept. 1 1902, 

The present residence of this family is Oshkosh, Wis. 

IIL 

ELIJAH LEVINGS (Abel, Noah, Joseph, John, John) m. Lucy Hall at 
South Hero Vt. by Rev. Asa Lyon: d. at Madrid N. Y. Jan 16 1853. 

LUCY, b. At Castleton Vt. Nov. 13 1781: d. at Madrid N. Y. Aug. 1 
1883, aged nearly 102 years. 

Their children at Fairfax Vt. 
Edwin, b. Dec. 24 1803: 
Alpheus Hall. b. Jan. 19 1806: 

Mary, b. Aug. 17 1807: m. Benedict R. Burnett, 1830. d Aug. 29 1874. 
Amanda, b. Sept. 10 1809: m. Daniel Packard". 
John Denison, b. Oct. 12 1811: 
Elijah, b. Aug. 22 1814: d. Oct. 3 1814. 

Daniel Hall, b. Apr. 8 1816: ' 

Israel Hall, b. June 13 1818: d. July 20 1871. unmarried 
Myron Winslow, b. Sept. 30 1820: 

Elijah Levings sold a piece of land in Walpole, N. H., (no doubt 
his share in his father's estate) to Constantine Oilman, March 14, 179.">, 



THE LEVINGS BRANCH. 117 



for £18. He uext appears at Sooth Hero in Grand Isle Co., V(., where 
he married into an excellent family. But the young couple crossed to 
the main land and settled in Fairfax, Vt. There the children were 
born. After their birth the entire family removed to Madrid in St. 
Lawrence Co., N. Y. 

(1.) 

EDWIN LEVINGS (Elijah, Abel, etc.) m. Lucinda Stone: d. at Ma- 
drid Sept. 22, 1833, without children. 

(2.) 

ALPHBUS HALL LEVINGS (Elijah, Abel, etc.) m. Rhoda Powell at 

Madrid, Dec. 27 1837: d. at Hamiltou 111. Apr. 17 1863. 
RHODA, d. June 10 1865. 

Tlieir children at Hamilton 111. 
Lucy Louisa, b. July 24 1840: m. David H. Ferguson. 
Emma Eliza, b. Nov. 14 1842: 

Charlotte Amelia, b. June 9 1845: m. Phineas C. Flint. 
Harriet Lucinda. b. Nov. 26 1849: 

The present home of the Misses Levings is at River Falls, Wis. 
We are indebted to Miss H. L. Levings for all the data of the posterity 
of 'her grand-father Elijah. 

(3.) 

JOHN DENISON LEVINGS (Elijah, Abel, etc.) m. Minerva Gates, Nov. 
11 1841: d. June 4 189L 

Their children, 
Myron Elbert, b. Sept. 4 1843: 
Harriet Celestia, b. Sept. 6 1845: d. Feb. 2 1847. 
Lorenzo Elijah, b. Oct. 1847: d. Jan. 8 1876, unmarried. 
Frances Fiuette, b. Apr. 20 1850: m. Isaac F. Lnndis. 
Seth Gates, b. Jan. 2 1852: 
Ropabell, b. Sept. 22 1855: d. Feb. 16 1860. 
Lois Norah. b. July 8 1858: d. Jan. 2 1859. 
Minnie Ella, b. Oct. 22 1860: m. Tobias Head. 

MYRON ELBERT LEVINGS (John D., Elijah, etc.) m. Nnncy Fidelia 
Charter, May 1 1864: d. at La Harpe 111. Sept. 5 1897. 

Their children, 
Ada Celestia, b. March 2 1865: m. W. C. Martin. 
Alice Rosalie, b. Juno 6 1867: m. Robert Brown: d. Aug. 13 1893. 
Frances Ella, b. Fob. 12 1870: ni. Mexico Sperry. 
Fred Lester, b. Nov. 28 1875: 



118 THE LEAVENS NAME. 

FRED LESTER LEVINGS (Myron E., John D., Elijah,) m. Millie But- 
ler, July 12 1894. 

SETH GATES LEVINGS (John D., Elijah, etc.) m. Dorathy F. Wright, 
March 13 1873: 

Their children, 
John N., b. Aug. 2Q 1875: 
Celia J., b. Oct. 30 1877: m. John Yowell. 
Glide, b. May 5 1880: 
Herbert J., b. Sept. 13 1887: 
Homer E., b. Feb. 14 1890: 

The family lives at Goss, Mo. 

JOHN N. LEVINGS (Seth G., John D., Elijah, etc.) m. Lurena Short- 
ridge Dec. 19 1897: 
They have a son. b. Apr. 2 1899. 



(4.) 

DANIEL HALL LEVINGS (Elijah, Abel, etc.) m. Rebecca Loomia at 
Madrid, Apr. 2 1840: 

Their children at Madrid, 
Edwin Daniel, b. Jan. 3 1841: 
Homer Winslow, b. Aug. 22 1843: 
Henry Hiram, b. Sept. 7 1848: d. Sept. 21 1849. 

Daniel Hall Levings is still living at River Falls, Wis., the only sur- 
vivor of the fourth generation from Justice Joseph Leavens of Killingly, 
through the line of his son Noah, and the grand-son Abel mentioned in 
his Will. 

EDWIN DANIEL LEVINGS (Daniel H., Elijah, etc.) m. Mary E. 

Dickinson at Moille 111. Oct. 22 1867: 
MARY E., d. at Mendota 111.. Apr. 18 1870. 

He m. (2) Lucy May Clack Sept. 19 1888: 

Their children, 
Willis, b. Jan. 9 1890: 
Mary, b. July 27 1891: 

HOMER WINSLOW LEVINGS (Daniel H., Elijah, etc.) m. Katherine 
Miller. 

Edwin Daniel and Homer Winslow Levings "were mustered into 
service at Madison, Wis., Nov. 5, 1861, re-enlisted as veterans at Natchez, 



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Miss., Jan. 5, 18G4, aud were discharged at the close of the War at Louis- 
ville, Ky., July 16, 1865. They were in fourteen battles; took part in the 
siege of Vicksburg, and went with Shemian on his 'march to the sea'. 
They were in Co. A. 12th Wis. Vols." 

"Myron Packard, sou of Amanda Levings, was mustered in at Madi- 
son, Wis., Oct. 18, 1862. and was discliarged at Louisville Sept. 20, 1865. 
He was Q. M. Serg. in the 30th Wis. Vols." 

"Ellsworth Burnett, son of Mary Levings, enlisted in the 12th Wis. 
Vols., Oct. 18, 1862; was promoted to Capt. of Co. F., 3Tth Wis., Apr. 19, 
1864; and brevetted Major for gallantry at the siege of Petersburg, Apr. 
2 1865". "d. at Santa Rosa, Cal., 1895". 

(5.) 

ISRAEL HALL LEVINGS was graduated at the University of Ver- 
mont in the Class of 1848. Among his classmates were Robert D. Benedict, 
a prominent lawyer of New York City, aud Dorman B. Eaton, an eminent 
writer on questions of public economy. He studied theology at Andover 
Seminary and was ordained to the ministry. Defective health stood in the 
way of the highest success, but he was known as an accomplished scholar 
and a finished writer of pure English. His discourses are remembered by 
many who heard him in life. 

The General Catalogue of the University of Vermont contains a note 
concerning Israel Hall, a student who was horn at South Hero and died 
there July 16, 1819. He is described as a "son of Col. Alpheus and Mercy 
(Blinn) Hall." He had "fitted for College under Rev. Asa Lyon", but died 
in the midst of his course. This doubtless shows the intelligent family into 
which Elijah Levings married; aud it shows the source of the intellectual 
fervor which characterized it. The Rev. Asa Lyon was a distinguished 
citizen of Vermont, aud he left a lasting influence in Grand Isle County. 
The name of the scholar Israel Hall was conferred upon the son of Lucy 
Hall and Elijah Levings, born shortly before the young collegian died. 

Elijah Levings Burnett was graduated from the University of Vermont 
in the Class of 1862, aud from Union Theo. Sem. in 1865. He was ordained 
to the ministry by the Presbytery of Philadelphia and has served in the 
East and the West. 

(6.) 

MYRON WINSLOW LEVINGS (Elijah, Abel, etc.) m. (1) Auna Maria 

Stebbius at Madrid, Jan. 12 1847: d. -^^^ : 
ANNA M., d. Sept. 17 1857.. 



120 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



Their children at Madrid, 

Frederick William, b. Oct. 30 1847: d. at Potsdam, March 25 1870. 
Charlotte Augusta, b. June 20 1853: m. Henry E. Phelps at Racine Wis., 
June 11 1S83. 
(Henry Levings Phelps, b. Aug. 23 1892) 

Myron W. m. (2) Betsy Mills Van Buren, Oct. 23 1859. 

Their child, 
Glenn Van Buren, b. Oct. 19 1873. 

At our latest information Glenn V. B. Levings was an assayer on the 
gold mines of Chihuahua, Mexico. 

Myron Winslow Levings is said to have been in the 116th N. Y. 
Vols, in service nine months in 1862, .3. 

So numerous and so vigorous the posterity of the first Abel Leavens, 
or Levings, they may be glad to "hark back" to a mid-September day, 1751, 
on the vertex of Killingly Hill, and read the Will of a young farmer about 
to die at the age of 31 and leave behind a group of children, the oldest not 
yet eleven years of age. 

IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN; this seventeenth day of Septem- 
ber Anno Domini, 1751. I, Noah I^eavens, of Killingly in the County of 
Windham and Colony of Connecticut, in New England, yeoman, being sick 
in body but of perfect mind and memory (thanks be given to God therefor) 
and calling to mind ye mortality of my body and knowing that it is ap- 
pointed unto man once to die, do make and ordain this ray last Will and 
Testament, that is to say, principally and first of all, I give and recommend 
my soul into the hands of God Who gave it and my body I recommend to 
the earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion of my 
executors, nothing doubting but that at the general resurrection I shall 
receive ye same again by ye mighty power of God: and as touching such 
worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life, I 
give, demise and dispose of ye same in ye following manner and form. 

Imprimis. I give and bequeath unto Mary, my well-beloved wife the 
use, command and improvement of so much of ye room in my new dwelling 
house and cellar, in Killingly aforesaid, as bho shall need and the use of one 
half of my barn and also the profit and income of all my improvements in 
said Killingly until my son Abell shall arrive at ye age of twenty one 
years if she shall remain my widow so long, and after that time to have 
the profit and income of one third part of my improvements so long as she 
shall remain my widow. And further my will is that she shall have ye 
profit and income of one third part of my quick stock and ye free liberty 
of use (but not dispose) of ye household goods within doors so long as 
she shall remain my widow. And in case my beloved wife shall marry 
again my will is that she shall have out of my stock and moveable estate 
the sum of Two Hundred Pounds old tenor valued to her by judicious in- 
different men appointed thereto by ye Court of Probates, she acquitting ye 
rest of my estate real and personal and this to be her Dower out of my 
estate. 



THE LEVINGS BRANCH. 121 



Item. I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Abel Leavens my 
dwelling house and bam in Killingly aforesaid and all ye lauds I am now 
lawfully seized and posse.ssed of in said Killingly lying and being on the 
westerly side of ye county road leading from I'lainfield to 'Ihompson, he 
to come into the possession thereof at ye age of twenty one years (except 
the privilege I have reservinl for my beloved wife aforesaid during her 
widowhood, and upon her marriage or decease my said son Abel shall 
have the possession of ye whole both buildings and hinds as above <le- 
scribed; and also my will is that my said son Abel shall have all my hu><- 
bandry tfnils and utensils without doof-s he paying the legacies hereai'tt'r 
mentioned and ordered for him to pay) and this to be to him, his heirs and 
forever free and clear as his portion out of my estate. 

Item. I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Elijah I^eavens, ye 
one moiety or half part (quantity for quality) of all the land I am seized 
and possessed of in Killingly aforesaid lying and being on ye easterly side 
of ye county road alM)ve mentioned, he to have his half bounding nortiiorly 
upon Mr. Hows land and westerly fronting upon said county road and 
easterly bounding upon land belonging to the heirs of William Moffitt 
deceased, and so to extend southerly in a regular form as to comprehend 
the quantity of land before expressed. He to come into the possession 
thereof when he shall arrive at the age of twenty one years (he paying 
the legacies hereafter mentioned and ordered for him to pay) then this shall 
be to him, his heirs and assigns forever free and clear as his portion 
out of my estate. 

Item. I give and bequeath unto my beloved son .Joseph I^eavens the 
one moiety or half part, quantity for quality, of all ye lands I am seized 
and possessed of in Killingly aforesaid, lying and being on ye easterly 
side of ye county road above mentioned. He to have the southerly part 
of said lands, he to come into the ipossession thereof when he shall arrive 
to the age of twenty one years (lie paying the legacies hereafter ordered 
and mentioned for him to ppy) then this shall be to him, his heirs and 
assigns forever free and clear as his portion out of my estate; nevertheless 
• my will is that there be a convenient road left and reserved for public 
use from the Middle meeting-house in said Killingly through my lands 
cast of said county road to ye eastermost boundary of said land and that 
said road be excluded in ye division of said land as above expressed. 

Item. I give and bequeath unto my In-loved daughter Rebecca Leavens 
th» one half (in value) of all my Quick stock and all my household goods 
that shall be left after the marriage or decease of my bi'loved wife afore- 
said, she to come into ye possession th.ereof at ye age of eighteen years 
or upon ye day of her marriage in case her said mother should marry or 
decease before that time, and also I give unto my said daughter Rebecca 
the sum of Two Hundred pounds according to old Tenor bills of credit 
to be paid her out of my estate in ye following manner and form, that is 
to say, one hundred pounds to be i)aid to her by my son Abel when she 
shall arrive at ye age of twenty one years, and one hundred ixmnds more 
to be paid to her by my son Elijah when ye said Elijah shall arrive at ye 
age of twenty three years, this to be to her my said daughter Rebeeca and 
to her heirs and assigns forever free and clear as her portion out of my 
estate. 

Item. I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter, Zerviah Leav- 
ens, the one half part (in value) of all my Quick stock and all my house- 
hold goods that shall be left after the marriage or decease of my l>eloved 



122 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



wife aforesaid; she to come into possession thereof at ye age of eighteen 
years, or upon the day of her marriage in case her said mother should 
mnrij or decease before that time, and also I give unto my said daughter 
Zeiviah ye sum of Two Hundred pounds according to old Tenor bills of 
Credit to be paid to her out of my estate in ye following manner and form, 
that is to say, fifty pounds to be paid to her by my son Abel when she 
shall arrive at ye age of Twenty one years; and fifty more to be paid to 
her when she shall arrive at ye age of Twenty two years: And One 
hundred pounds more to be paid to her by my son Joseph when ye said 
Joseph shall arrive at ye age of Twenty three years, this to be to her my 
said daughter Zerviah and to hef heirs and assigns forever free and clear 
as her portion out of my estate. 

And further my will is that my debts and funeral charges should be 
first paid out of my credits, stock and moveable estate before any distribu- 
tion be made of ye same. 

And I do hereby constitute, appoint and ordain, Mary, my well-beloved 
wife aforesaid, and my well-beloved friend John Leavens, of Killingly 
aforesaid, my sole executors of this my last Will and Testament. And I 
do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disannull all other and former 
Testaments, Will, Legacies and Bequests and Executors by me in any 
wise before willed, named and bequeathed, ratifying and confirming this 
and no other to be my last Will and Testament. 

In witness whereof, I the said Noah Leavens have hereunto set my 
hand and seal the day and year first above written. 

Signed, sealed, published, pronounced and declared by ye said Noah 
lieavens, as his last Will and Testament, in presence of us ye subscribers. 

NOAH LEAVENS seal 

Samuel Winter Jr. 
David Robarts Jr. 
Perley Howe. 

Windham S. S. 

Killingly. November ye 14 1751. 

Then ye Rev. Perley How and David Robarts Jr. personally appeared 
and made solemn oath that they saw Mr. Noah Leavens, late of Killingly 
deceased, sign seal publish pronounce and declare ye foregoing instrument 
as his last Will and Testament and that they together with Samuel Win- 
ter Jr. set to their hands as witnesses at ye same time, in presence of 
ye testator. 

Sworn before me 

Joseph Levens. 

Justice of ye Peace. 
The above and foregoing is a true copy of the last Will of Noah 

Leavens. 

Waldo Tillinghast, Judge of Probate. 

Plainfield Ct. 
July 28 1897. 



THE OHIO STORY. 123 



To Ohio. 

One of the most interesting households in KillinK'ly at the date of 
the Revohition was that of Cai)t. JoJin Leavens, the hist-born child of 
Justice JOSEPH. It has already been nuMitioned (Family No. 11). 
Happily the very door of the house is once opened to us. Young Mr, 
Williams of Woodstock, school-master, sets it ajar, and it is in his diary, 
after this wise: — 

"Jan. 15 1787. Mr. John Leavens called at the school-house. 

31. After school walked a mile to Mr. John Leavena with his son 
Joseph. There tarried all night. Supp^nl on fresh cod fish &c: ate 
apples and drank flip. 

Feb. 1. Breakfasted on pan-cakes and haddock. Saw Chester Con- 
verse and lady going with Mr. Joseph Leavens to Killingly in a slay. 

6. After school walked with my senior pupil, Joseph Leavens, 
two miles to singing meeting at Mr. Hutchinson's school-house and 
sang an hour or two. 

9. Dea. Torrey here; also Jacob Leavens, with whom went to 
singing meeting at our school-house. 

10. Fanuj' Leavens came to school. Her brother Joseph began 
to study surveying." 

Here is a mine of suggestion about the old times in New ETngland — 
the winter school; the occasional visitor therein; the sleighing outside; 
the long walk in the snow roads; the singing-school in the evening; then 
the "boarding 'round," with its bounteous good living and unceremonious 
cheer. But what does the school-master see in the face of Fanny Leavens, 
seventeen years old, that causes him to write her in his diary as his new 
scholar one day? And why is Joseph Leavens, "senior pupil," at the 
sound age of twenty-four beginning to study surveying? 

The fact is there is lively talk going on in the house of Capt. Jului, 
which will have such effect that in the very next year the comfortable 
domicile will be broken up and the family gone on an heroic migration to a 
land where "surveying" will have a limitless field. 

The Ohio Company, having for its object to settle the territory north- 
west of the Ohio River, was organized in 178G. The Rev. Dr. Manasseh 
Cutler was a master-spirit in it. The tirst detachment of settlers left 
Danvers, Mass., Dec. 3, 1787; the second went from Hartford, Conn., 
Jan. 1, 1788. Ephraiui Cutler, son of Dr. Manasseh, then living with his 
aged grandfather in Killingly. acted as agent of the Company and in- 
terested Windham County people. As soon as spring opened auotLer 
party followed, in which were Capt. John Leavens, and Benjamin Con- 
verse, a grandson of the first Benjamin Leavens. Tlieophilus Knight, 
whose mother was Justice JOSEPH'S daughter Rachel, was of this 



124 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



party and he left a racy journal of his adventures. It was forty days 
from Killingly to the landing at Marietta, Ohio, May 18, 1788. The 
route appears to have been straight across Connecticut, New York, north- 
ern New Jersey; up the Lehigh valley of Pennsylvania, passing the Mo- 
ravian settlements, and over the Alleghenies to the headwaters of the 
Ohio, which led to the destination. Theophilus Knight says, "There was 
eight of us young men that fixt out, and had four horses & wagons & put 
our clothes, farming tools, provisions &c into it, and off we set & had 
a very merry journey thro the country. * * * Sometimes we met with 
disagreeable things, bad luck, bad travelling, &c &c. But upon the whole 
we did pretty well." Theophilus was a good deal of a philosopher and 
fond of the soft side of things, so he concludes:— "But upon the whole I 
looked ou every side, and I thought that the country was not so much 
better than any other that it would pay a man for carrying a large family 
to such a wild wilderness country as that, and inhabited with savages and 
wild beasts of the forest." 

Capt. John Leavens came to the opposite conclusion, and somehow, 
in that year 1788, transported his well-grown household, including four 
daughters and two sons, over that fearful journey. He settled at Belpre. 
The name is an abbreviation of Belle-prairie and was applied to a beau- 
tiful meadow tract on the Ohio, near the entrance of the Little Hock- 
hocking. The company to settle here was composed of about forty associ- 
ates. They passed the winter of 1788-9 in Marietta and then drew 
their lots in the proposed town. They went to their farms in April, 1789. 
They built log huts along the river and began clearing. Tliey were not 
able to plant their corn among the girdled trees until June. Unhappily 
there was an early frost in the autumn and the corn was struck before 
it was mature. The community was put to terrible straits and reduced 
to the point of starvation before another crop could be raised. 

Says a reliable historian, "The larger portion of individuals who 
formed this association had served as officers in the late war, and when the 
army disbanded retired with a brevet of promotion." "No settlement ever 
formed west of the mountains contained so many men of real merit, sound 
practical sense and refined manners." "They had been in the school of 
Washington, and were nearly or quite all of them acquainted with that 
great and good man." * 

But the privations were extreme. Here is a date and a hint;— lu 
the autumn of 1789 Jervis Cutler joined a party of land surveyors of the 
Ohio Company, out of a desire to see the country. And he saw it, for 
he got lost in the woods. After several days of wandering and peril, he 
reached a point on the Hockhocking where he recognized the situation 
and was able to choose a course. One of his options, as he says, was to 



•Pioneer History, by S P. HUdreth, p. 350 61. 



THE OHIO STORY. 125 



go "down stream to the cabin of John Levins, seven uiilos beluw." * 
A "cabin" in the wilderness and not so much as corn meal in the hudor 
was a startling contrast to the bountiful home left behind in old Killingly! 

The work of these brave settlers was of the highest importance. 
They opened a valuable region and planted towns and institutions that 
have been eminent. They were the fii-st makers of the State of Ohio, 
and through that state of the vast North-West, in whose population their 
posterity ranks among the best. 

Hardly had the pioneers escaped the terrors of famine when violent 
troubles with the Indians broke out. The Belpre people were obliged to 
collect for safety in a cluster of block houses, which they fortified. They 
called the place "Farmers' Castle". Here were assembled at one time 
as many as "220 souls— 28 heads of families". In the year 1792 house 
No. 10 contained two families, and one of them is designated as "Capt. 
John Levins, wife and six children from Killingly Connecticut, viz., Jo- 
seph, a young man; and John, a boy of ten years, Nancy (?), Fanny, Esther 
and Matilda", f 

The head of this family did not long survive the trials of the pionee'-, 
but his widow lived to see her children established. The daughter Judith 
had married before the removal from Killingly and the home of her 
posterity was North Adams, Mass. 

The school-master's Fanny comes to sight in the following extract:— 
"Major Joseph Lincoln came to Marietta, April 7 1788. He was born in 
Massachusetts in 1760, and had served in the Revolutionary army. While 
in garrison at Farmers' Castle, Belpre, he married Fanny, daughter of 
Capt. John Leavens, from Killingly Connecticut. After the war (with 
the Indians) he removed to Marietta, where he established himself in 
business". He was an extensive owner of real-estate and a builder. "He 
soon became one of the most successful merchants in Marietta. He was 
a most excellent man. Tradition says that his daughter Susan Lincoln, 
educated at the celebrated Moravian school at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 
was one of the most attractive and accomplished girls of her time." X 
Major Lincoln died in the midst of his enterprise and success. 

The daughter Hannah was married to Jonathan Plummcr, who died 



•Pioneer History, p. 481- 

tPioneer History, p. 384. 

JThe Founders of Ohio; brief sketches; p. 22. The general cataloRUP of the 
Moravian Seminary for Young Ladies at Bethlehem, Pa., contains the name of Susan 
Lincoln as a student in the year 1802. It represents her as a daughter of Maj. Joseph 
Lincoln of Marietta, O.; b. Aug. 11, 1791 ; m. 1. Mervig. 2. Nathanael Cushing, 3. Poni- 
eroy: d. Gallipolis O. 18.51. There were other students from prominent families of 
Marietta. 



126 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



iu Marietta. Afterward she became the wife of Stephen Pierce and 
died in Salem, Ind. 

The daughter Betsy was married at Marietta in Marc'i, 1803, to 
Dr. Increase Mathews as his second wife. 

Increase Mathews was a nepliew of Gen. Rufiis Putnam, who was 
leader of the first band of pioneers and superintendent of the settlement 
in the North West Territory. Born Dec. 22, 1772, and reared in New 
Braintree, Mass., he studied medicine urder Dr. Spencer Field of Oakham 
and received his certificate of proficiency Jan. 7, 1799. He visited Mari 
etta, O., in 1798. In 1801 he settled in Zanesville, locating the next year 
in the newly surveyed section then called Putnam, where he spent his days. 
He married Besty Leavens at the home of her sister Fanny, wife of 
Major Lincoln. 

At a somewhat early age Dr. Mathews retired from practice and 
devoted himself to agricultural and other interests. As an indication 
of his enterprise it may be noted that he first, at great pains, introduced 
the breed of Merino sheep in Ohio. He established the first drug store in 
Zanesville. Bringing his credentials from the Congregational Church of 
New Braintree, dated Aug. 27, 1800, he was one of the five original mem- 
bers of the first Church organized in Muskingum County. 

Concerning Betsy Leavens Mathews her grand-child, Mrs. Margaret 
D. Fulton, writes, 

"She was fourteen years old when her father with his family came 
to Ohio. So she was born and almost brought up at Killingly. I was 
nearly eleven years old when she died and I adore her memory, for sh'> 
was as lovely and as intellectual as she was beautiful. She knew all 
of Watts' hymns by heart and could repeat the "Westminster Catechism" 
question and answer, from beginning to end. She used to read and after- 
ward repeat Thompson's "Seasons" and Cowper's "Task", Pope's works 
and many books of that kind. She was benevolent and beloved and looked 
up to by all who had need of her assistance. **♦ Our home was just across 
the street from the old homestead, so that she was like a mother to me, 
my own mother having died when I was an infant. I think you will 
agree with me in thinking that we have reason to be proud of her." 

The daughter Esther was married to Thomas Sandford in 1804. She 
had a large family and died in Alexandria, Va., where her descendants 
still live. 

The daughter Matilda was married in 1803 at Marietta to John 
White and died in Indiana. 

The son Joseph married Betsy Stratton in Belpre and died early 
leaving daughters. 

The son John married Patience Warner in Putnam, now Zanes- 
ville, O. He died in 1815 at the age of thirty-four. 




BETSY LEAVENS MATHEWS. 
1775-1852. 



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THE OHIO STORY. 127 



He left two daughters. One became Mrs. Lewis; the other, Miss 
Catherine B. Leavens, never married. These two removed in 1845 to 
Clinton, III., where tliey were active and influential people. They were 
among the thirteen charter members of the Presbyterian Church of Clin- 
ton. After the death of her sister the home of Miss Leavens was with 
her niece, Mrs. Bishop. She lived to a great age and was regarded with 
singular affection. "Almost to the last she kept her heart fresh and 
young by mingling with the world and leaving the impress of her lovable 
nature on everybody with whom she came in contact. An earnest, de- 
voted Christian woman, she was a blessing to those who sorrowed, and 
the world is the better for her having lived in it." From the home of 
another niece, Mrs. Potwin, of Chicago, in September, 1893, she visited 
and greatly enjoyed the Columbian Exposition, of which she wrote an 
account in a fair, clear hand and lively style. Shortly afterward she 
fell sick and died Oct. 4, 1893, at the age of eighty-six. With her de- 
parture the name Leavens expires in the posterity of Capt. John Leavens, 
but his descendants are numerous in the lines of his daughters, and he 
deserves to be held in high regard for a courageous part among the 
very first settlers of the Great West. 



We have alluded to Benjamin Converse, another emigrant with 
large family. His mother was Mary Leavens, sister of the eminent 
Benjamin. Mr. Converse settled at Waterford and soon died. His 
widow and eight children spent the winter of 1792 in "Fort Frye," a 
hastily constructed defense against the Indians. Among her children 
were James, a young man, and Daniel, a lad of fifteen years. The next 
spring this Daniel Converse went out one day with two men into the 
forest. The men had guns, but he had none. While they were cutting 
down a tree a party of Indians fired on them. Fortunately neither of 
the three was wounded. "What shall we do?" exclaimed one of the 
men. "Why, tree and fire," said the boy, meaning, of course, 'jump 
behind a tree and shoot at the savages before they can re-load.' Instead 
of doing so, the men seized their guns and ran. That left Dan to be 
captured. The Indians led him bare-foot an almost endless journey through 
the forests of what are now Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. At 
last they brought up near Detroit. There the boy managed to escape 
by the friendly aid of some Frenchmen, and he was by them forwarded 
down the route of the lakes, past Niagara and down the St. Lawrence 
to St. John's in Canada. From there British officers furnished him a 
passage to Castleton, Vt.; and thence he reached his relatives in Killingly. 
There was a bevy of Leavens cousins, among the rest, to listen with 
eager ears to the marvellous adventures of this youth, before he re- 
turned to Ohio in 1794. 



138 THE LEIAVENS NAME. 



To Readings Vt., and Thence to Granville, N. Y» 

The brothers Jedidiah and Hezekiah Leavens (Benjamin, BENJA- 
MIN) went, unmarried, to Reading, Vt., as early as the year 1779. They 
must have returned to Killingly, for there Hezekiah was married in 
1785; aud there his first child was born the next year. Then he 
took his family to Reading. But apparently he was not satisfied, for 
he removed to Granville, Washington County, New York. There othe^ 
children were bom and it was his home till death. He left three sons. 

(1.) 

Royal Leavens lived at Glens Falls. We understand that lie was 
twice married. The record is incomplete. 

ROYAL LEAVENS (Hezekiah. Benjamin, Benjamin, John, John) m.(l) 
Maria Folsom March 8 1814: d. Oct. 5 1841. 
Their children at Glens Falls, 
John, b. Apr. 1815: m. at Mobile Ala., but left no children. 
Addison, b. May 1817: 
Eugene, b. : d. young. 

Maria Susan, b. : m. Dr. Joseph L. Stoddard Aug. 25 1841 at 

Glens Falls. 
He m. (2) Mary Baldwin. 

Their children, also at Glens Falls, 

Mary, b. : d. young. 

Eugene, b. N. Y. Aug. 26 1829: 

Helen, b. : d. young. 

Edric, b. 

Emily, b. 

(a) 

ADDISON LEAVENS (Royal, Hezekiih. B^ njamin, Benjamin, John, 
John) m. Harriot B. MacPherson of Albany N. Y., Oct. 1845; d. in 
New York City Nov. 1867. 

HARRIOT B., b. : d. in N. Y. City, Oct. 10 1897. 

Their children in Mobile Ala., 
Addison, b. Feb. 10 1847: 

Helen Belle, b. Oct. 24 1848: East Point Ga. 
George MacPherson, b. Feb. 24 1851: in Wyoming. 
Joshua Bayley, b. March 25 1853: d. 1863. 
Erastus St. John, b. : d. at 14 months. 

Harriet, b. : d. at 7 months. 

Grace, b. July 11 1863: m. B. Walker Martin of Atlanta Ga. June 1895. 



GRANVILLK AND ALABAMA. 129 

Addison Leavens, Jr., was acting-sergeant in 1st. Batt. Ala. Cadets 
(Pelham Cadets)C. S. Army. His present address is East Point (near At- 
lanta) Ga. 

(b) 

EUGENE LEAVENS (Royal, Hezoklah, Benjamin, Benjamin, JoI:n, 
John) ra. Charlotte Davis Nov. 22 1851: 

Their children at Portville N. Y., 
Helen Emily, m. William B. Merserau, Apr. 15 1870. 
Edith Rebecca, m. Dr. Roderick McLennan, Syracuse N. Y., Nov. 1 1887: 

d. Mar. 13 1892. 
Myrtle, d. young. 
Kate M., d. young. 
Frederick R.. d. by accident at 16 years of age. 

Eugene Leavens has been for nearly forty years a member of a 
lumber-manufacturing concern, now styled Merserau & Co. 

Eugene Leavens Merserau is a student in Yale University. 

(2) 

BENJAMIN LEAVENS (Hezekiah, Benjamin, Benjamin, John, John) m. 

Sally White. Feb. 13 1813: d. at Mobile Ala., 1851. 
SALLY, d. at Mobile 1839. 

Their children at Granville N. Y. 
Emily White, b. Aug. 10 1815: ra. S. H. St. John. 1840: d. Oct. 18 1878. 
Benjamin Franklin, b. July 11 1817: 
James Bayley, b. Nov. 9 1819: d. 1821. 
James Bayley, b. June 1 1823: d. 1823. 
Edward, b. Apr. 25 1825: d. in New Orleans about 1853. 
Frederick, b. March 2 1830: 
Jcshua Bayley, b. Sept. 1 1835: d. 18.36. 

He m. (2) Mrs. Emily Maria Rrogdon. 
EMILY M., b. at East Haddam Conn., Jan. 18 1815: now living at Hous- 
ton, Texas. 

Their children at Mobile, 
Henry St. John, b. Oct. 21 1845: d. Feb. 28 1883. 
William Converse, b. Aug. 27 1847: d. 1847. 
Sally White, b. Oct. 13 1849: m. Price Clarkson, now at Houston Texas. 

(a) 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LEAVFJNS (Benjamin. Hezekiah, Benjamin. 
Benjamin, John, John), m. at Mobile Ala.: d. about 1848. 



130 THE LEAVENS NAME. 

His child at Mobile, : 

Susan Emily, b. May 1846: m. Dr. Wharton of Miss. 

(b) 

FREDERICK LEAVENS (Benjamin, Hezekiah, etc.) m. Euphemia A, 

Wenman, Aug. 22 1850: 
EUPFTEMIA A., b. Apr. 2 1822: d. Nov. 19 1901. 

Their childi-en at New York City, 
Fiederick Franklin, b. Dec. 11 1851: 
Henry Wenman, b. Feb. 23 1852: 
Emily St. John, b. March 25 1855: 
George St. John, b. July 18 1857: 
Addison, b. Nov. 8 1864: 
Percy, b. 1859: d. March 27 1865. 

FREDERICK FRANKLIN LEAVENS (Frederick, Benjamin, Hezekiah, 

etc.) m. Eveline Louise Robinson, March 3 1886; 
EVELINE, b. Nov. 8 1856: 

Their child, 
Frederick Franklin, b. March 21 1892: 

HENRY WENMAN LEAVENS is a graduate of the School of Mines, 
Columbia College. He lives in Australia, where he married, in 
1899, Sabina Harrison. 

ADDISON LEAVENS (Frederick, Benjamin, Hezekiih, etf.) m. Carrie 
Irene Patterson in Brooklyn, Apr. 4 1894: 

Their children, 
Mildred, b. Feb. 1 1895: 
Irene, b. Sept. 19 1897: 
Eleanor, b. May 19 1900: 



(3.) 

JOSHUA BAYLEY LEAVENS (Hezekiah, Benjamin, etc.) m. Naomi 
Rogers 1820: d. 1835. 

He left one daughter, Helen Naomi, b. June 29, 1821. She was 
brought up by her aunt, Susan Leavens Hunt. She married Thomas Butler 
of Mobile, Ala., and left children, of whom are Pierre C. and Helen N. 
Butler, now of Mobile. 



DUDLEY, MASS., AND ELSEWHERE. 131 



To Dudley, Mass., and Elsewhere. 

Benjamin Leavens, the third in direct line of that name, made his home 
in Killingly and there his children were born; but it was over the line in 
Dudley, Mass., that his tlnee sons reared their families. 

(1.) 

LOllING LEAVENS (Benjamin, Benjamin, Benjamin, John, John) ni. 

Dolly Larned, Feb. 12 1816: d. 1869. 
DOLLY, b. 1797: d. 1883. 

Their children— the two named first were born in Killingly, the last in 
Webster :\Iass., the others in Dudley IMass. 
AVillium Larued, b. Apr. 26 1819: m. Caroline H. Wallis: d. 1850 leaving no 

children. 
Sibbell Louisa, b. Aug. 12 1820: m. Andrew Wiggin. 
Benjamin Morris, b. May 6 1822: 
Hannah Ann, b. Aug. 27 182.3: m. (1) Harlow M. Guild, 1840. m. (2) Leau- 

der W. Warren, 1858. 
Dolly Jane. b. Jan. 1 1825: d. 1839. 

Mary Augusta, b. Nov. 27 1826: m. Reuben P. Taft, 1848. 
Elisabeth Amelia, h. June 16 1828: m. Lemuel Parkhurst, 1850. 
James Loring, b. Sept. 11 1829: 
Ruth Maria, b. June 3 1834: d. 1872, unmarried. 

Loring Leavens is on record as a "private" doing duty in July 1813. 

BENJAMIN MORRIS LEAVENS (Loring, Benjamin, Benjamin, Benja- 
min, John, John) m. Martha M. Morgan Jan. 1 1845: d. 1873. 

Their child, at Norwich Conn. 
Jaue Larued, b. Dec. 18 1847: m. Alfred Hough 1880. 

Benjamin M. Leavens was one of the " '49ers" but returned from 
California in broken health, from which he never recovered. 

JAMES LORING LEAVENS ( Loring, Benjamin, Benjamin, Benjamin, 
John, John) ni. Sarah Jane Forbes May 5 1850. 

Their child at Dudley, 
George William, b. Aug. 11 1855: 

(2.) 

(tEORGE LEARNED LEAVENS (Benjamin, Benjamin, Benjamin, John, 

John) m. Elizabeth Learned, Oct. 18 1820: d. July 21 1869. 
ELIZABETH, d. Mar. 29 1840. 



133 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



Their children, at Dudley Mass. 
Erastus Wilkinson, b. Aug. 22 1821: 
George Merrill, b. June 22 1825: 
Elizabeth Learned, b. .]an. 18 1832: d. 1832 (at Boston). 

He m. (2) Emeline Burnett, who d. 1876. 

ERASTUS WILKINSON LEAVENS (George Lewis, Beujamiii, Benja- 
min, Benjamin, John, John) m. Helen N. F. Whiting, Sept. 30 1840: 
d. June 20 1888. 

HELEN N. F., b. Jan. 8 1823: d. Feb. 17 1897. 

Their children at Boston^ 
Erastus, b. July 29 1842: d. about 1889, without children. 
George Henry, b. June 1 1844: m. 1877; without children. 
Helen Amelia, b. Sept. 30 1849: unmarried. 

GEORGE MERRILL LEAVENS (George L., Benjamin, etc.) m. Caroline 
A. Copps Sept. 29 1850: d. Feb. 3 1897. 
Their children at Charlestown Mass., 
Harry, b. Apr. 10 1851: d. Feb. 27 1853. 
Frank, b. Mar. 30 1853: d. Sept. 29 1863. 
William, b. Jan. 9 1855: 
George Adams, b. June 27 1860: 

at Medford Mass., 
Eddie, b. Aug. 1865: d. in infancy. 
Henry, b. Nov. 5 1871: 

WILLIAM LEAVENS (George M., George L., Benjamin, etc.) m. Emma 

D. White, Dec. 6 1880: 
Their child at Maiden, Mass., 
Edith Elizabeth, b. Nov. 3 1881: 
GEORGE ADAMS LEAVENS (George M.. George L., Benjamin, etc.) m. 

Annie Perkins, Aug. 1881. 

HENRY LEAVENS (George M., George L., Benjamin, etc.) m. Emma 
Florence Kimball, Nov. 16 1898: 

Their children, 
Harold Wesley, b. at Medford, Mass., May 9 1899: 
Merrill Webber, b. at Melrose, Mass., May 2 1901: 
Bertha Mildred, b. at Melrose, Mass., Apr. 13 1903: 

(3.) 
The course of Benjamin, the fourth Leavens of that name in direct descent, 
may be traced in the record of his family. 




PROF. Bhnjamin Franklin leavens. 

1 822- 1 88 1. 



DUDLEY, MASS., AND ELSEWHERE. 183 

BENJAMIN (Benjamin, Benjamin, Benjamin, John, John) m. Sylvia 
Healy, May 13 1819: 

Their children, 
Lucretia Learned, b. at Pomfret Conn,, Feb. 20 1820: m. D. L. Giddings 

1849. 
Benjamin Franklin, b. at Dudley Mass. Oct. 12 1822: 
Henry Newton, b. at Willington Ck)nn. Feb. 17 1825: 
Sylvia Conant, b. at Williugton Conn. Feb. 2 1827: d. 1849. 
Lucy Aurelia, b. at Dudley Mass. Aug. 6 1830: d. 1859. 
Ellen Louisa b. at Dudley Mass. Oct. 29 1839: m. F. P. Burnham. 

Benjamin Franklin Leavens early developed a musical taste, and at 
the age of eighteen was organist at Christ Church, Boston. He afterward 
went to St. Paul's Church on Tremont St., where he organized the first 
boy choir of Boston. In 1857 he removed to Burlington, N. J., and took 
charge of the music at St. Mary's and at Burlington College under the 
patronage of his friend, Bishop Doane, of the diocese of New Jersey. 
Here he remained until the death of Bishop Doane, and in 1863 he re- 
moved to Hartford, Conn. During the remainder of his life he was con- 
nected with St. John's, Trinity and other Churcl'cs, serving also as pro- 
fessor of music in Trinity College until 1870 — making an uninterrupted ser- 
vice with the Episcopal Church of over thirty years. He was an ardent 
admirer of a high order of Church music, and in the course of his life 
had collected an extensive library of Church and classical music. Besides 
the organ, he gave instruction on other instruments. So much time was 
devoted to instruction that he did not progress in composition, though pos- 
sessing talent in that direction. 

Prof. Leavens became interested and active in Freemasonry while in 
New Jersey and was Past E. C. of Helena Commandery, Knights Templar. 
At Hartford, Conn., he became oue of the charter members of Lafayette 
Ledge, F. and A. M. in 18G7. He affiliated with Washington Commandery, 
K. T., No. 1, and Connecticut Consistory 32nd degree and directed the 
music in these bodies until his death. 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LEAVENS (Benjamin, Benjamin, Benjamin, 
Benjamin, John, John) m. Charlotte M. Cunningham May 11 1845: 
d. Aug. 5 1881 at Hartford Conn. 

CHARLOTTE M., b. May 1 1822 at Groton Mass. 

Their children at Boston, save the three last named, who were born 
fit Burlington N. J. 

Grac-e Helena, b. June 27 1846: d. Apr. 1 1850. 
Frank William, b. March 26 1848: d. Apr. 4 1850 

Grace Cunningham, b. Apr. 17 1852: m. Joseph G. Birch May 28 1885: d. 
Mar. 25 1887. 



134 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



Henry Purcell, b. May 22 1853: d. Sept. 11 1855. 
Edith, b. Nov. 24 1854: d. Aug. 26 1878. 
Thomas Cunningham, b. Dec. 4 1857: 
Claude Lorraine, b. Aug. 17 1859: d, Oct. 21 1860. 
lleginald Heber, b. Feb. 12 1863: 

THOMAS CUNNINGHAM LEAVENS (Benjamin P., Benjamin, Benja- 
min, Benjamin, Benjamin, John, John) m. Fanny J. Birch Oct. 
12 1882: 

FANNY J., b. June 1 1856 at Mercer Me. 

Their children, 
Edith, b. at Brooklyn N. Y., Nov. 15 1883: 
Kenneth, b. at Providence R. I. 

Charlotte, b. " " J"ly 30 1894: d. Mar. 17 189.1. 

Elizabeth, b 

REGINALD HEBER LEAVENS (Benjamin F., Benjamin, Benjamin, 
Benjamin, Benjamin, John, .Tohn) m. Alice M. Washburne June 23 

1891: 
ALICE M., b. March 26 1869 at Worcester Mass. 

Their child, at Providence R. I. 
Doris Lome, b. Sept. 23 1893: 



IN DIVERS DIRECTIONS. 135 



In Divers Directions. 

Eden Leavens (Benjamin, BENJAMIN) liad three sons in his 
Killiugly home. His body reposes in the ancient grave-yard with the 
Leavens patriarchs. The dispersion of his family can be observed in the 
records. 

(1.) 

JOHN NICHOLS LEAVENS (Eden, Benjamin, Benjamin, John, John) m. 

Eliza Morse, Apr. 6 1822: d. Dec. 19 1868. 
ELIZA, b. June 7 1803: d. Feb. 2 1891. 

Their children, three at Pomfret Conn., four at Webster Mass. 
Mary Adeline, b. Jan. 29 1823: m. Lucius D. Negus: d. Dec. 15 1875. 
Eden Nichols, b. Aug. 3 1825: 
John Curtis, b. Apr. 12 1827: d. Jan. 1 1830. 
Samuel James, b. Oct. 29 1831: 

Ellen Augusta, b. Mar. 18 1834: m. Charles L. Mowry, Dec. 23 1855. 
John Newton, b. Oct. 26 1838: d. Nov. 27 1845. 
William Nelson, b. Mar. 19 1841: 

(a) 

EDEN NICHOLS LEAVENS (John Nichols, Eden, etc.) m. (1) Eunice 
Darling, Jan. 1 1850: m. (2) Jennie A. Upton Sept. 2 1859: m. (3) 
Mary Winter, Apr. 24 1866. 

Child of Eden N. and Jennie A., at Faribault, Minn., 
Frank N., b. May 25 1860: 

FRANK N. LEAVENS (Eden Nichols, John Nichols, Eden, etc.) m. Ida 
M. Fairlee, Apr. 23 1889: 
Residence, Tacoma, Wash. 

(b) 

SAMUEL JAMES LEAVENS (John Nichols, Eden, etc.) m. (1) Ellen M. 
Hinchliffe, Jan. 2 18!>3: m, (2) Elleu P. Williams, June 28 1893: d. 
Jan. 24 1903. 
The home was at Webster, Mass., and there were no children. 

(c) 

WILLIAM NELSON LEAVENS (John Nichols, Eden, Benjamin, Benja- 
min, John, John) ui. Addie P. Miller, Aug. 14 1862: 






136 THE LEAVENS NAME. 



Their children at Webster Mass., 
Charles M., b. March 4 1864: 
William Nelson, b. Sept. 18 1867: 
Bessie A., b. July 2 1874: 

CHARLES M. LEAVENS (William N., John N., Eden, etc.) m, Etta H. 

Fairfield, at Thompson Conn., Sept. 21 1889: 
ETTA H., b. at Douglass, Jan. 27 1867: 

Their children at Webster, 
Blanche F.. b. March 17 1890: 
Iluth E., b. Oct. 9 1891: 
Grace M., b. Dec. 28 1892: 
John Henry, b. Apr. 15 1899: 
Olive May, b. Jan. 30 1900: d. July 14 1900. 
Charles Nelson, b. Nov. 5 1901: 
George William, b. Apr. 29 1903: 

WILLIAM NELSON LEAVENS (William Nelson, John N., Eden, etc.) 
m. Gertrude Boynton at Worcester Mass., May 9 1899: 

Their children, 
William Boynton, b. June 15 1900: 
Frank Barton, b. May 21 1903: 

(2.) 

EKASTUS HOWE LEAVENS (Eden, Benjamin, Benjamin, John, John) 

m. Almira Reynolds, 1832: d. 1843. 
ALMIRA, (m. James B. Scott in 18.56): d. 1885. 

Their children at New Bedford, 
Mary Elisabeth, b. July 12 1834: m. Charles Slater, Aug. 18 1858, 
Sarah Jane, b. Feb. 12 1837: m. Sisson. 
James Howe, b. Feb. 19 1839: 

Fanny Ashley, b. Jan. 2 1841: m. Gifford: d. May 5 1893. 
Alvin Franklin, b. June 1843: d. Sept. 1843. 

Sergeant James H. Leavens enlisted in Aug. 1861 in the 18th Mass. 
Vols, and was killed in the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. 

MARVIN M. LEAVENS (Eden, Benjamin, Benjamin, John, John) m. (1) 
Mary Ann Whitman, Sept. 10 1828: d. March 8 1863. 

Their children at Coventry Conn. 
James, b. Oct. 10 1829: d. 1830. 
Edwin, b. Nov. 18 1835: d. unmarried. 
Ellen, b. June 16 1837: d. 



IN DIVERS DIRECTIONS. 137 

m. (2) Maria Wilbur. 

Their children, 
G('orge Howe, b. at Scituate Mass., Oct. 22 1840: unmarried. 
Owen E., b. at Scituate Mass., Mar. 28 1842: d. Feb. 20 1899. 
Marvin Henry, b. at Bellingham Mass., Nov. 12 1849: 
James, b. at Webster Mass., Jan. 11 1852: d. Aug. 15 1899. 

Shirley O. Leavens is a son of Owen E., and is in business in Provi- 
dence, R. I. 

MARVIN HENRY LEAVENS (Marvin M., Eden, etc.) m. Julia E. 
Davison, Nov. 23 1871: 

Their son in Providence R. I. 
George D., b. July 5 1875: 

GEORGE D. LEAVENS (Marvin H., Marvin M.. Eden, etc.) m. Jenny 
S. Briggs, Oct. 24 1899: 

Their child at Grafton Mass., 
Dorothy, b. Sept. 28 1900: 







INDEX OF NAMES 



This Index includes all the first names of both Leavens and Levinqs men and 
women. The entire posterity of Abi'l, the first name on the list, adopt the orthog- 
raphy Levinqs, and they are indicated by a single star (*). 

There is a less numerous branch of the family springing from a sou of the third 
Peter Leavens, in Dutchess County, who also writes Levinos, and these are indicated 
by the double stars (**) . 

The Index of women show marriages— on one side, the women whom Leavens or 
Levings men have married; on the other side, the men to whom Leavens or Le-\-ing8 
women have been married. 

The final Index of surnames is intended as a help to genealogists consulting this 
book. 



MEN 



Abel 1 41 


, 42, 46, 49. 


Benjamin 


20 


21 27 


Charles (C. W. 


98 


64, 107, 118. 


120. 121. 


34, 35, 37, 123 






Charles (C. Wei 


98 


•Abel 2 


64. Ill 


Benjamin 2 




34, 35, 


•Charles (C. W. 


111, 113, 


♦Abel 3 


111, 112. 114 


38, 39, 43. 46, 


47, 


50. 51. 


114 




Abel 


63, 106 


54. 






♦Charles (No 


107, 108 


Addison 1 


128 


Benjamin 3 


43, 


68. 131 


Charles (Mar 


97 


Addison 2 


128, 129 


Benjamin 4 


68. 


132, 133 


Charles (P. E. 


75, 7ij 


Addison 


130 


Benjamin (Pe 




40, 56 


Charles And 


100 


Albert 


88, 89 


Benjamin (Jos 




56 


Charles Av 


91, 95 


Albert F. 


94 


Benjamin (John 


40, 61, 


Charles C. 


90 


Albert H. 


93 


62. 






♦Charles Ch 


108 


Albert Ma. 


S2 


Benjamin (Jed 




66 


Charles Fr. 


82 


Albert Mi 


82 


Benjamin (Hj2 




68, 129 


Charles Fre 


102 


Albert W. 


94 


Benjamin (Dan 


80 


Charles L. 


77 


Alexander H. 


90 


Benjamin A. 




69 


Charles M. 


135, 136 


••Alfred H. 


74. 75 


Benjamin F. 


iBen 


4 133 


Charles N. (Nel 


61 


•Allen 


109 


Benjamin F. ( 


Ben 


Hez 


Charles N. (C. 


M. 136 


Almon W. 


101 


129. 






♦Charles San 


114 


•Alpheus H. 


116 117 


Benjamin F. 


(C. 


W. 96 


♦Charles Syd 


109 


♦♦Alonzo 


73, 74 


Benjamin M. 




131 


Charles W. (C. A. 96 


Alvin F. 


136 


Burton A. 




102 


Charles W. 2 


96 


Amasa 


44 


Burton P. 




92 


Charles Wei 


98 


Andrew (Jo 


8, 14, 15 


Byron W. 




83 


♦Charles Wes (C 


. w. 


Andrew (Ja 


62. 87, 90 








115. 116. 




Andrew H. 


89 








♦Charles Wes (N 


fo 109 


Andrew K. 


87, 89 


Calvin (Jos 




41 


Chester W. 


111, 116 


Arc€ne W. 
Arnold J. 
Arthur B. 
Asher L. 
Austin 
Austin M. 
Avando 


84 
97 
95 
102 
79 
86 
96 


Calvin (Ch 
•Calvin D. 
Calvin Gal 
♦Calvin S. 
♦Calvin W. 
♦Calvin W. 2 
Charles. 
63, 91, 103. 


41 


63, 99 

111 

99 

114 

112, 113 

113 

51, 52, 


Clarke 
Claude L. 
Clide 
Cornelius 
Cornelius B. 
Cromwell H. 


79 
134 
118 
80 
79 
94 


Bain 


59 


Charles 2 




63, 98 


Daniel (Ben 


56, 80 


♦♦Bartlet R. 


73 


Charles 3 




98 


Daniel 2 


80 



11 



INDEX 



Daniel (Ell 


83 


Fitch H. 


88 


George Wil (C. M. 136 


♦Daniel H. 


116, 115 


•Francis A. 


109 


Gilbert (EI 


78 


Daniel S. 


105 


Francis J. 


66, 67 


Gilbert (Wil 


79 


Daniel W. 


99, 100 


Frank 


132 


•Glenn V. 


120 


Darius (Jos 


41. 51, 


Frank A. 


94 


Grover 


99, 100 


52, 62, 103, 104, 


106. 


•Frank A. 


115 






Darius (Wil 


105 


Frank B. 


136 






Darius (Cha 


63, 101 


••Frank M. 


74, 75 






Darius 2 


101 


Frank N. 


135 


Harlow G. 


92 


Darius (Thur 


106 


Frank W. 


133 


Harold 


82 


Darius W. 


105 


•Franklin S. 


114 


Harold H. 


80 


Dickson H. 


66, 67 


Fred A. 


101 


Harold M. 


97 


Donald 


92 


Fred Dar 


101 


•Harold W. 


113 


Donald W. 


100 


Fred Dav 


S8 


Harold Wes. 


132 


Dorland 


76 


Fred E. 


94 


Harmon R. 


105 






Fred I. 


97 


Harrison B. 


93, 95 






•Fred L. 


117, 118 


Harry 


132 






Frederick 


129, 130 


Harry C. 


79, 80 


Eddie 


132 


Frederick C. 


9S 


Harry D. 


79 


Eden 43, 69, 


, 70, 1.S5 


Frederick C. 


Da 101, 


Henry (Ja 


44 


Eden N. 


135 


102. 




Henry (Ja another 70 


Edric 


128 


Frederick F. 


130 


Henry (G. M. 


132 


Edward (Bsn 


129 


Frederick F. 


2 130 


Henry Ol 


60 


Edward (D. W. 


100 


Frederick R. 


129 


Henry C. 


69 


♦Edward (G. E. 


114, 115 


•Frederick R. 


1]3 


•Henry H. 


118 


Edward (W. H. 


100 


•Frederick R. 


2 113 


Henry N. 


133 


•Edwin (El. 


116. 117 


•Frederick W. 


113 


Henry Pa 


93, 94 


Edwin (M. M. 


137 


•Frederick Wil 


120 


Henry Pu 


134 


**Edwin (B. R. 


73 






Henry R. 


105 


♦Edwin D. 


118 






Henry St. J. 


129 


Edwin J. 


86 


George (El 


87, 88, 89 


Henry W. 


130 


Edwin M. 


86 


George (Ja 


70 


Herbert 


102 


•Elhanan 


107 


George (S. A. 


60 


•Herbert J. 


118 


Eli 


83 


George A. 


89 


Hezekiah 


43, 68, 128 


Elias 


79 


George Ad 


132 


Hiram 


83 


Elijah (No 41 


. 42, 49, 


George B. 


SO 


Hiram K. 


83 


63, 64, 65, 121. 




George D. 


137 


•Homer E. 


118 


•Elijah (Ab 


64, 107, 


•George E. 


112, 114 


•Homer W. 


118 


116, 119. 




•George E. (C. 


W. 113, 


Horatio S. 


83 


•Elijah 2 


116 


114. 








Eliphalet 


56, 78 


George F. 


100, 101 






Elisha (And 


87 


George H. 


59, 60 


Ira 

Ira M. 
•Israel H. 




Elisha (01 

Elmer 

Erastus 


69 
102 
132 


George He 
George Ho 
George Lea 


132 
137 

68, 131 


63, 96 
99 

116, K9 


Erastus H. 


70, 136 


George Lew 


69 


Isaac 40 


54, 58, 85 


Erastus St. J. 


128 


George McP 


128 






Erastus W. ' 


69 


George Ma 


71 






Erastus Wil 


132 


George Me 


132 


Jacob 1 41, 


62. 90, 123 


Ervin D. 


97 


George St. J. 


130 


Jacob 2 


62, 90 


•Erwin F. 


108 


•George Su 


109 


Jacob (Ch 


63 


•Erwin N. 


108 


•George Sy 


108 


Jacob (An 


87, 88 


Eugene 


128 


••George W. 


74. 75 


James (Jo 1 


8. 14, 15 


Eugene 


128, 129 


George Wil 


131 


James (Jo 2 


17. 21 



INDEX 



111 



James 17, 20, 21, 24, 
26, 27, 28, 29, 30. 31. 32, 

37. 39. 

James (Ben Zi, S.'i. 41 

James (Ja Ben 44 

James (Ben 2 43, 70 

James 2 70 
James (M. M. 136, 137 

•James Ar lOS 

James As 71 

James B. twice 129 

James B. (J. W.) 79 

James H. 136 

James L. 131 

James Mc. Q. 90 

James W. 56 

James Wa 71 

•Jared W. 112. 113.. 1115 

Jedediah 1 43. 52, 65, 

66, 128. 

Jedediah 2 66 

Jeremy R. 105 

Jesse 58, 59 

Jesse S. 69 

John 1 3, 5 to 11 

15, 51, 89. 

John 2 S, 14, 15, 16 

to 21. 

John 3 21 

John (Ja 26, 32, 37, 

38, 40. 

John 2 40 

John (Jos 33 34, 42 

46, 49. 51, 64, 123, 124, 

125, 127. 

John 2 43, 65, 125, 

126. 

John (Is 58 

John (Ro 128 

John (Ol 09 

John (G. L. 69 

John (S. A. 61 

•John A. 114, 115 

John B. 92 

♦John Ca 108, 109 

John CI 86 

John Cu 135 

•John D. 116, 117 

•John E. 109 

John F. 77 

John G. 63 

John H. 79 

John He 136 



John J. 


81 


♦John M. 


111 


John Ma 


85, 86 


John Mo 


SI 


•John N. 


118 


John Ne 


135 


John Ni 


70, 135 


John R. 


75, 76 



Jonathan W. 92 

Joseph 20 21, 24. 

26, 27, 29, 30, 31. 33, 34, 

37. 38, 39, 41. 48. 49, 53, 

87, 91, 103, 118, 123. 

Joseph 2 33, 34, 38. 

40. 41, 47, 48, 91, 123. 

Joseph (Pe 40, 55, .'',6 

Joseph (Jo 42, 65. 

123, 125. 126. 

Joseph (No 41, 42, 121 

Joseph (Is 58, 85 

Joseph (Sa 54, 57, 81 

Joseph Pen 59 

Joseph 2 59 

Joseph (S. A. 60, 61 

Joseph (J. B. 81 

Joseph (Pe Jo 77 

Joseph (Pe Jo another 

77. 

Joseph A. 82 

Joseph B. 81 

Joseph G. 85^ 86 

Joseph K. 60 

Josephus P. 85 

Josephus P. 2 85 

Joshua B 68. 130 

Joshua B. (Ad 128 

Joshua B. (Ben 129 



Kenneth 


134 


Kenyon 


84 


Kenyon G. 


83. 84 


Kirke H. 


52, 66 



Lewis Cr. 95 

Lewis L. 70 

Lewis T. (El 78 

Lewis T. (J. H. 79 
Linus 91, 92 

Linus (Wy 92 

Linus C. 92 
Loring 68, 131 

•Lorenzo E. 117 

Louis 79 

•Louis R. 114 
Lyford 99, 100 

Lyman 67 



♦Mark M. 


114 


Marson (Ira 


96 


Marson (Cha 


63 


Marvin H- 


137 


Marvin M. 


70, 136 


Merle 0, 


97 


Merritt 


77. 78 


Merrill W. 


132 


Moses 


97 


•Myron E. 


117 


•Myrou W. 


116. 119. 


120. 





Nathan E. 82 

•Nathanael A. lOS, 109 
Nelson 61 

•Nelson T. 115 

Noah 33, 34, 37, 38, 

41, 42, 107, 118, 122. 
•Noah 1 53. 64, 107, 

120. 
•Noah 2 107, 109-11 

•Noah (Cha 108 

Noah (Is 58 

••Noah 73 

•Noah C. 109 

•Noah C. another, 109 



Laurence A. 


78 






Leander 


81 


•Obadlah K. 


111. 112 


Leander C. 


93. 95 


Oliver (Ben 


43, 69 


•Leroy L. 


116 


Oliver (Pen 


59 


Lewis 


67 


Oliver (Jos 


59, 60 


Lewis (Ja 


70 


•Oliver F. 


108 


Lewis C. 


82 


•Oliver K. 


111. 112 



IV 



INDEX 



Oliver M. 


98, 99 


Royal 


68, 128 


Walter P. 105, 


106 


Ora E. 


97 


♦Royal 


107 


Walter R. 




7S 


Orange 


103 


Rufus 


63, 103 


Walter R. anothei 




79 


Oranzo 


91, 95 






Walton D. 




78 


Oranzo (C. A. 


96 






Warburton D. 




98 


Oren 


106 






W-ells 




98 


Owen E. 


137 


Samuel (Jo 

81, 83. 
Samuel 2 


40, 56, 57, 
54, 57, 83 


•Wilbur F. (No. 
•Wilbur F. (C. W 
115, 116. 




103 






Samuel (Pe 


55 


Will B. 




78 






Samuel (Da 


80 


Willard (Sa twice 


57 


58 


Paschal P. 


91, 93 


Samuel B. 


51, 82 


Willard (Da 


63, 


104 


Paul C. 


SO 


Samuel D. 


80 


Willard (Jo 




59 


Paul J. 


86 


Samuel J. 


135 


Willard (S. A. 




60 


Penuel (Jo 40, 


46, 51, 


Samuel S. 


bl 


•Willard F. 


114, 


115 


58. 




Samuel T. 


56 


•Willard P. 




112 


Penuel (Cha 63 


91, 92 


Samuel Th 


80 


William (Jo twice 


42 


. 43 


Percy 


130 


Seth 


77 


William (Sa 




57 


Perrio 
Peter fJo 


6S 


•Seth G. 


117 


William (Jos 




56 


8, 15 


♦Sherburne D. 


114 


William (Jos another 


60 


Peter, 17, 20, 


21, 24, 


Sherman Y. 


80 


William (Ro 




67 


25, 27, 31, 32, 72. 




Shirley 0. 


137 


William 2 


67 


, 68 


Peter 2 31, 


32, 39. 


Simeon 


40 


William 3 




68 


40, 72. 




Simon D. 


87, SS 


William (G. M. 




132 




Smith 


76 


William A. 




89 


Peter 3 


40, 55 
















Smith G. 


85, 86 


•William Ab 




115 


Peter (Jo 40, 


45, 46, 
















Smith P. 


75, 76 


•William Ar 




108 


52, 58, 84. 




Stephen (Pe 


59 


William B. (Be 


56 


, 80 


Peter (Jos. 


56. 76 


Stephen (Da 


80 


William B. (Da 




80 


Peter (Jos Pe 


77 


Stephen (S. A 


60 


William Barry 


94 


, 95 


Peter E. 


55, 75 


Stephen A. 


59, 60 


William Bu 




77 


•*Peter R. 


73, 74 


Stephen B. 


SO 


William Bo 




136 


Philip J 


79 






William C. 




129 


Philip J. (S. G. 


86 






•William Ha 


113, 


114 


Philip S. 


86 






•William He 




116 


Philo F. 


93, 94 


Theodore 


84 


William Hen 




77 






Thomas 


61 


William H. H. 




61 






Thomas C. 


56 


William L. 




131 






Thomas Cun 


134 


William N. 




135 


**Ralph 
Ralph G. 
Ralph N. 
•*Ralph S. 


74 
79 

96 
74 


♦* Thomas G. 
Thomas Je 
Thomas Jo 
Thurlow 
Thurlow (Wi 


74, 75 

85, 86 

S6 

63, 106 

105 


William N. 2 
•William S, 
William W. 
William W. 2 
William Wi 




136 
114 
105 
106 
83 


Reginald H. 


134 


Thurlow, C. 


105, 106 


Willie P. 




97 


Rennsalaer B. 


77 


Titus 


79 


C. Willis 




96 


Reuben 


77 






Willis (C. W. 




96 


**Richard 


55, 73 






•Willis (E. D. 




118 


Robert 


55 






Willis H. 




100 


Robert (Wil 


79 


Vine 


42 


Wyman 




92 


**Rob6rl 


73 












Robert P. 


89 












Roland 


43, 67 












Roswell 


58 


•Walter B. 


115 








Royal (Ben 


43 


Walter C. 


100 


Younes. 




79 



INDEX 



WOMEN 



s. p. 

R. 

W. N. 
*C. 



Abbie 09 

Abigail m. Garratt 75 
Abigail m. Huntington 

44 
Abigail m. Hutchins 33. 
34, 49. 

m. Abigail Bowman 76 

Ada C. m. Martin 117 

m. Adah Lee 103 

Addie D. 94 

m. Addie Miller 13.5 

m. Agnes McCall 114 

Alice (Sa 57 

Alice m. Fairbanks 63 
Alice m. Green 34, 49 

m. Alice Eaton, 33, 40, 41, 
91. 



R. H. 
J. R. 

E. H. 



89 


34 


102 


117 


134 


105 


97 


136 





*N. 


m. 


Amarilla Rosebush 


IDS 




W. 


m. 


Ann Burritt 


67 


P 


P. 


m. 


Ann Eliza Bowen 
Anna A. m. Haight 


93 

68 




0, 


m. 


Anna 


61 




L. 


m. 


'Anna Mack 70 


71 


♦*P 


R. 


m. 


Anna Nunn 


74 


*M. 


W. 


m. 


Anna Stebbins 
Annie m. Conley 


119 
60 


*A. 


H. 


m. 


Annie Beverage 


75 


•N. 


A. 


m. 


Annie Castleman 


109 


S. 


Y. 


m. 


Annie Evans 


80 


s. 


G. 


m. 


Annie Moore 


86 


G. 


A. 


m. 


Annie Perkins 


132 


"R. 


m. 


Annie Wing 


73 








Annie B. m. Manchee 








94, 


95 






••Annie E. 


74 








Annie L. 


?6 








Annie M. m. Sherma 


n 
86 


G. 


F. 


m. 


Annie Harris 


101 


W. 


B. 


m. 


Annie Mac Donald 


95 



J. ni. Antoinette Allen S8 

J. m. Aphia Bowen 81 

Apphia D. 81 

Apphia D. m. Patterson 

81 

O. E. m. Attie Magoon 97 



G. L. m. Barbara Pettis 69 

J. m. Bathsheba 44 

Bathsheba m. Stowell 44 

m. Beatrice Cheney 106 



\\'. P. 



Belle 








9S 


•Bertha 


A. 






108 


Bertha 


J. 


m. 


Morris 


78 


Bertha 


M. 






132 


Bessie 


A. 






136 



Betsy m. Mathews, 43. 

126 

Betsy m. Mitchell 66 

Li. m. Betsy Deming 92 

J. m. Betsy Stratton 65, 126 

*M. W. m. Betsy Van Buren 120 

Blanche F. 136 



Caroline 80 

Caroline P. 93 

Caroline O. m. Osgood 90 

Caroline O. m. Richards 

90 

G. M. m. Caroline Copps 132 

C. m. Carolina Holt 98 

W. L. m. Caroline Wallis 131 

Carrie 95 

L. m. Carrie Gaines 92 

**E. m. Carrie Patchin 73 

A. m. Carrie Patterson 130 

Catharine 75 

Catharine m. Cronk 56 

Catharine m. Hyatt 40 

P. m. Catharine Caston 39, 40 

W. m. Catharine Rider 68 

Catharine B. 65. 127 

•Celia J. m. Yowell 118 

Celia M. m. Ladd 93 

J. M. m. Celinda Paine 81 

Charlotte (S. A. 60 



VI 



INDEX 



Charlotte (T. C 134 

Charlotte m. Hedges 106 

C. m. Charlotte Allbee 97 
B. F. m. Charlotte Cunningham 

133 

E. m. Charlotte Davis 129 

F. E. m. Charlotte Hills 91 

♦Charlotte A. m. Flint 117 

*Charlotte A. m. Phelps 

120 

Charlotte B. 97 

*Charlotte M. lie 

Charlotte R. 105 

Chloe m. Wardner 63 

*ChIoe F. m. Courtright 

108 

Clara m. Davenport 102 

Clara G. m. Fexer 71 

Clara R. 85 

*Clara S. m. Warren 109 

H. B. m. Clara Craumer 95 

*J. A. m. Clara Pieratt 115 

E. m. Clara Werden 83 

G. m. Clarinda Stedman 71 

Clarissa m. Benjamin 101 

L. m. Clarissa Mack 70 

D. m. Clarissa Whiting 101 



Deborah 79 

Deborah E. 105 

Deborah m. Van Blari- 

combe 56 

W. m. Deborah Ransom 104, 105 

E. m. Deborah Rogers 78 

Delia D. 66, 67 

P. m. Delinda Burlingham 76, 

77 

B. m. Dency Huyck 56 

*Dollie J. 116 

Dolly m. Aldrich 66 

Dolly Jane 131 

L. m. Dolly Larned 13i 

Donna R. 100 

Dorcas Annie 59 

J. m. Dorcas Whitford 59 

Dorinda 83 

•Doris H. 115 

Doris L. 134 

Dorothy 137 

Dorothy C. 92 



Dorothy m. Kingsbury 

43 

Dorothy H. 101 

B. m. Dorothy Perrin 43 

*S. G. m. Dorothy Wright 118 



Edith (B. F 134 

Edith (T. C. 134 

Edith E. 132 

Edith R. m. McLennan 

129 

Eleanor 130 

Eleanor O. 68 

E. m. Eleanor Nichols 70 

*W. H. m. Eleanor Van Deusen 114 

♦Elida A. 108 

.Elisa m. Pearson 77 

R. m. Elisa Gilson 77 

Elisabeth (Ja 33 

Elisabeth (Jo 65 

Elisabeth (Ja Ben 44 

Elisabeth (Mar 97 

Elisabeth (T. C. 134 

Elisabeth m. Allen 62 

Elisabeth m. Aspinwall, 

21, 22, 23, 29 

Elisabeth m. Chollar 87 

Elisabeth m. Cowles 105 

Elisabeth m. Dean 40 

Elisabeth m. Gay 43 

Elisabeth m. Hebard 34. 

35 

Elisabeth m. Horsmor 

27, 34, 35 
Elisabeth m. Marsh 57 
Elisabeth m. Smith 75 
Elisabeth A. 93 

Elisabeth A. m. Park- 
hurst 131 
Elisabeth B. m. Cooper 
77 
Elisabeth D. 88 
Elisabeth Ja 86 
Elisabeth Jo 81 
Elisabeth L. m. Jeffers 

105 

Elisabeth N. 60 

Elisabeth L. 132 

Elisabeth W. m. Shaw 

83 

J. m. Elisabeth — — 3, 7. 15 

B. m. Elisabeth Cady 43 



INDEX 



Vll 



J. 


H 


J. 


N 




M 




J 


w. 


P. 



B. m. EJlisabeth Church 27, 34 

35 

N. ra. Elisabeth Chollar 61 

A. m. Elisabeth Davis 87 

J. W. m. Elisabeth Gunter 79 

J. m. Elisabeth Hascall 62 GO 

S. m. Elisabeth Johnson 57 

E. M. m. Elisabeth Jordan 86 

G. L. m. Elisabeth Learned 131 

P. E. m. Elisabeth Lounsberry 75 

J. m. Elisabeth Preston 16, 17, 

21 
Eliza 60 

Eliza A. m. Lovell 78 
Eliza H. m. Bishop 87 
Eliza P. 100 

m. Eliza Graves 79 

m. Eliza Morse 135 

m. Eliza Morse 96 

Ella m. Robbins 102 

Ella A. m. Craft 71 

m. Ella Adams 61 

m. Ella Hammond 115 

Ellen 137 

Ellen m. Buck 63, 104 
•Ellen A. 108 

Ellen A. m. Mowry 135 
Ellen L. m. Burnham 133 
m. Ellen Hinchliffe 135 

m. Ellen Owen 82 

m. Ellen Williams 135 

Elmira m. Jerow 77 

m. Eimira Dyckman 67 

m. Emeline Burnett 132 

Emily (Hez 68 

Emily (Roy 128 

Emily A. m. Emery 71 
m. Emily Brogdon 129 

m. Emily French 88 

Emily M. 100 

♦Etaily P. 112 

Emily St. J. 130 

Emily W. m. St. John 

129 

Emma D. 78 

Emma E. 82 

m. Emma White 132 

♦Emma E. 117 

m. Emma Kimball 132 

•Emma P. m. Comstock 

116 

Esther (Pe 32 

Esther (Pe 2 40 



S. J. 
J. A. 
S. J. 

L. 
G. L. 



B. 

A. 



W. 
H. 



Esther (Ja 44 

Esther B. m. Cameron 

77 

J. m. Esther Curtice 44 

Esther m. Sandford 43, 

125, 126 

•Esther E. 114 

•Esther H. m. Williams 

113 

A. m. Esther Munsell 64 

•EJsther R. m. Wlllard 111 

*C. W. m. Esther Davis 113 

J. m. Esther Williams 33, 42 

C. M. m. Elta Fairfield 136 

Eunice 57 

Eunice m. Wescott C2 

E. N. m. Eunice Darling 135 
F. m. Euphemla Wenman 130 

A. m. Eustatla McDonnell 79 

Eva 60 

Eva K. m. Bowron 96 

J. P. m Evaline Brewster 85 

Evangeline m. Peckham 
90 

F. F. m. Eveline Robinson 130 



Faith R. 66, 67 

T. C. m. Fannie Waldron 106 

*Fannle m. Blanchard IJl 

R. B. m. Fanny Cunningham 77 

G. m. Fanny Stone 87 

Fanny A. m. Gifford 

136 

T. C. m. Fanny Birch 134 

M. m. Flora Marsh 97 

Florence J. 86 

Florence R. 82 

•Florence M. 116 

Frances (C. G. 99 

Frances (J. R. 76 

Frances m. Lincoln 42, 

123, 125 

J. m. Frances Hammond 66 

F. J. m. Frances Dickson 66 

♦Frances E. m. Sperry 

117 
♦Frances F. m. Landis 

117 



Geneva M. 97 

Gertrude 106 

W. N. m. Gertrude Boynton 136 



Vlll 



INDEX 



>C. m. Gertrude Hoatling lOS 

**Gk)Iden W. 74 

Grace m. Martin 128 

Grace C. m. Birch 133 
Grace E. - 82 

Grace H. 133 

Grace M. 13G 

C. m. Grace Haydeu 9S 



Hannah m. Brooks 32 
*Hannah m. Flint VI 

Hannah m. Haight 75 
Hannah M. Lee 41 

Hannah m. Peake 21 
Hannah m. Plummer 

42, 125 

m. Pierce 42 

Hannah m. Rawson 33, 

34, 49 

Hannah m. Thorn 40, 

72 

S. m. Hannah 



83 
lO:^. 

55 
34. 



R. m. Hannah Clark 
P. m. Hannah Hunt 
J. m. Hannah Larned 29, 

39, 48, 53 

A. m. Elannah Marshall HI 

J. B. m. Hannah Moon 81 

J. m. Hannah Simmons 71 

R. m. Hannah Waldo 67 

J. m. Hannah Wood 14, 20 

Hannah A. m Guild 131 

m. Warren 131 

Hannah C. m. Putnam 

101 
Hannah E. m. Dickinson 
81 
Hannah F. m. Seaman 

77 

Harriet 128 

Harriet m. Adams 59 

Harriet m. Gates 70 

Harriet m. Manlin 85 

Harriet m. Rogers 105 

♦Harriet C. 117 

Harriet C. m. Bacon 90 

Harriet E. m. Pease 74, 

75 

Harriet F. m. May 87 

Harriet Lo. 71 

•Harriet Lu 117 



♦Harriet M. m. Comstock 
116 
Harriet M. 68 

**Harnet P. m. Wood- 
worth 73 
•Harriet S. Ill 
♦Harriet S 112 
A. m. Harriot McPherson 128 
Hattie 99 
Hattie A. 98 
Hatie M. m. Shultze 102 
H. C. m. Hattie Bown 80 
Helen 128 
Helen A. 132 
Helen B. 128 
Helen E. m. Merserau 
129 



T. 


J. 


m. 


Helen Adams 


86 


P. 


F. 


m. 


Helen Barry 


94 


S 


D. 


m 


Helen Curtis 
Helen H. 
Helen L. 


S8 
88 
S6 


F. 


A. 


m. 


Helen Matthews 
Helen N. m. Butler 


94 

130 


E. 


W. 


m. 


Helen Whiting 
Helene S. 


132 
86 


*J. 


C. 


m. 


Henrietta Hanson 
Hezie 


109 
98 




E. 


m. 


Huldah Howe 


87 




D. 


m. 


Huldah Bayley 


101 



A. W. m. Ida Lumsden 101 

O. M. m. Ida Cuff 99 

F. N. m. Ida Falrlee l25 

W. H. m. Ida Morrow 100 

Ina Eliza 97 

Inez L. 100 

Irene 130 

C. W. m. Irene Hussey 96 

P. J. m. Irene Sharp 86 



Jane m. Bonsteel 75 

**Jane m. Sweet 73 

Jane A. m. Hyde 85 

Jane C. 86 

Jane L. m. Hough 131 

Jane W. m. Eidrldge 85 

II. R. m. Jane Aldrich 105 

D. m. Jane Blount 80 



INDEX 



IX 



II. P. m. lane Scofield 94 

.Teanette L. 94 

•Jennie 115 

E. N. m. Jennie Upton 135 

Jennie L. m. Johnson 85 

G. D. m. Jenny Briggs 137 

Jerusha (Ja 32 

Jerusha (Jo 40 

Jessie A. 105 

W. W. m. Jessie Decker 105 

Jessie M. 99 

P. m. Joanna Brown 58 

Josephine M. 6*5 

C. C. m. Josie Hallett 90 

Judith m. Trusdcll. 33, 

34 

m. Hutchins 33, 

34, 49 

Judith m. Wilmarth 42 

J. m. Judith Sabin 26, 27, 33, 

34, 39, 4S 

Julia A. m. Osborn 85 

Jiilia A. m. Walters 78 

Julia A. m. Bacon 85 

Julia A. M. 81 

Julia P. 96 

•Juiia E. m. Tuell 115 

Julia W. 97 

M. H. m. Julia Davidson 137 

L. C. m. Julia Ladd 95 

S. m. Juliet Merrick 59 

•F. W. m. Julia Ross 113 



Kate M. 129 

Katharine m. Sniithers 

65 

Katherine m. Wells 105 

*H. W. m. Katharine Miller 118 

Keziah m. Larned 33, 34, 

39, 49 

Keziah A. m. Richardson 

69 



**Laura 73 

* Laura m. Downing 107 

Laura m. Pratt 99 

Laura m. Richmond 67 

♦Laura A. m. Hamilton 

112 
Lena 106 



Lepha 82 

J. A. m. Lepha Harrington 82 

Lestina 103 

C. W. m. Lillian Ernsperger 96 

Loana 70 

•Lois N. 117 

A. K. m. Lois Torrey 89 

Lora 98 

Lottie L. 101 

Louisa m. Dayton 99 

•Louisa m. Love 111 

Louise R. 105 

Louise V. 83 

N. C. m. Louise Allen 109 

K. G. m. Lovisa Picherau 84 

* Lucia 115 

Lucia m. Allen 70 

*Lucia A. R. m. Hatch 

112 

C. G. m. Lucia Benjamin 99 

Lucina 61 

J. m. Lucina Pierce 59 

*E. m. Lucindn Stone 117 

Lucretia 44 

Lucretia (Ben 08 

Lucretia (Ed 70 

Lucretia L. m. Giddings 

133 

Lucy 58 

Lucy m. Cady 43 

•Lucy m. Dunlan 107 

Lucy m. Dustin 96 

Lucy m. Gates 70 

Lucy m. Smith 66 

Lucy m. White 67 

D. H. m. Lucy Clack 118 
•E. m. Lucy Hall 116 

W. W. m. Lucy McCutcheon S3 

C. m. Lucy Woods 99 

Lucy A. 133 

Lucy G. 66 

Lucy J. 90 

Lucy L. m. Chapin 99 

•Lucy L. m. Ferguson 117 

**T. G. ca. Luella Fuller 74 

Lurana m. Cutler 41 

Lurana m. Weld 62 

*J. m. Lurena Shortlidge 118 

•Luna 11<> 

♦Luna F. 116 

Lydia 80 

Lydia m. Chandler 91 



INDEX 





C 


m. Lydia Grover 63 


91, 
92 






Mary (Ja 
♦Mary (B. D. 


62 
118 




J. 


m. Lydia Inman 


70 






♦♦Mary 


73 






Lydia L. m. Horton 


70 






Mary (C. A. 
Mary m. Bailey 
Mary m. Barker 
Mary m. Buck 63, 


96 

98 

56 

104 






Mabel 


60 






♦Mary m. Burnett 


116, 


c. 


A. 


m. Mabel Richardson 


100 








119 






Malora 


69 






Mary m. Converse 


34 






Malora A. 


69 






35, 


127 




G. 


m. Mahitable Roberts 


100 






Mary m. Harrass 


55 






Malissa 


81 






Mary m. Larned 41, 42 






*Marcia 


115 






Mary m. Mastin 


56 






Marcia m. Richmond 


67 






Mary m. Saunders 


77 






Marcia G. m. Smith 


66 






Mary m. Stowell 


44 






Margaret 


76 






Mary m. Tracy 87, 85 


, 89 






Margaret m. Robshaw 60 






Mary m. Wilson 


105 






**Margaret A. 


74 




R. 


m. Mary Baldwin 


128 






♦Margaret E. 


in 


C. 


A. 


m. Mary Burr 


100 


w. 


P. 


m. Margaret Eley 


97 


D. 


W. 


m. Mary L. Burr 


100 




C. 


m. Margaret Foster 


76 




M. 


m. Mary Cain 


78 


*c. 


W. 


m. Margaret Headington 


116 




J. 


m. Mary Chamberlain 


26. 
32 




W 


m Margaret Hummiston 


79 


T. 


C. 


m. Mary Conery 


106 










S. 


B. 


m. Mary Crandel 


82 




S. 


m. Margaret Palmer 


60 


















F. 


A. 


m. Mary Dennison 


101 






Maria A. 


69 


*E. 


D. 


m. Mary Dickinson 


118 






Maria B. 


81 


C 


C. 


m. Mary Durkee 


90 






Maria H. m. Amesbury 


C. 


L. 


m. Mary Grier 


77 








87 




N. 


m. Mary Merrill 33, 41, 


42. 






Maria S. m. Stoddart 








120, 


122 








128 




J. 


m. Mary Orcutt 


90 


*J. 


W. 


m. Maria Bostwick 113, 


115 


*E. 


N. 


m. Mary Phillips 


108 






Maria m. Ellsworth 


75 


♦G. 


E. 


m. Mary Reed 


114 




R. 


m. Maria Folsom 


128 


C 


G. 


m. Mary Richards 


99 


J. 


W. 


m. Maria Holmes 


92 


J. 


F. 


m. Mary Rogers 


77 


*c. 


w. 


m. Maria Reed 


115 




E. 


m. Mary Shaftner 


102 


M. 


M. 


m. Maria Wilbur 


137 


w. 


R. 


m. Mary Sills 78 


, 79 






Marian 


98 


A. 


F. 


m. Mary Wade 


94 






Marie B. 


94 




J. 


m. Mary Winter 


40 






Marion 


100 


E. 


N. 


m. Mary Winter 


135 




D. 


m. Martha Fairbanks 


62 






Mary A. m. Negus 


135 


K. 


H. 


m. Martha Gleason 


63 
C8 






Mary Ag 


89 


G. 


H. 


m. Martha Lawton 


60 






Mary Al 


88 


B. 


M. 


m. Martha Morgan 


131 






Mary Ann 


70 




J. 


m. Martha Work 


59 






Mary Ann (01 


69 






♦Martha Ann 


109 






Mary A. m. Cady 103, 


104 






♦Martha L. 


108 






•Mary A. m. Corbin 


108 






Mary (Ro 


128 






Mary A. m. Eagleston 






Mary (Rol 


67 








90 






Mary (Sa 


67 






Mary A. m. Pierce 


59 



INDEX 



zi 



M 


M 


. m.Mary A. Whitman 


136 








Mary Au m. Taft 


131 








Mary C. 


78 








♦Mary E. 


111 








Mary E. m. Douglass 


85 








Mary E. m. Slater 


136 








Mary E. m. Sheldon 


81 








m. Pitman 


81 








m. Fenton 


81 








►'►Mary J. 


74 




J. G 


. m.Mary Phelps 


86 


J. 


P. 


m 


Mary Wheeler 
Mary M. 
•Mary R. 
Mary S. m. Laycock 
Mary W. m. Lewis 

Maryette 

Matilda m. Smithers 

Matilda m. White 

125, 
Mattie E. 


85 

67 

114 

77 

65, 

127 

92 

65 

43, 

126 

82 








Maud St. A. m. Johnston 


J. 


M. 


m 


Maud Claik 


86 


*F 


R. 


m 


Maude Cosad 


113 




0. 


m 


Mehetabel Gale 
Mehitable m. Wilson 


103 

20, 

21 




I. 


m 


Mehitable 


58 


A. 


H. 


m. 


Melissa Rust 
Mildred 


90 
130 


►F. 


L. 


m. 


Millie Butler 


118 


*J. 


D. 


m. 


Minerva Gates 
Minnie m. Lipsett 
♦Minnie E. m. Head 
Mira m. Richmond 
Miranda m. Hyde 
Miranda m. Sweet 


117 
77 

117 
66 
59 
60 




►N. 


m. 


■* c : 4- ; rt 


107 




Mills 










Mona 


39 




L. 


m. 


Myra Gordon 
Myrtie 


100 
129 



Nancy m. Crosby 79 

Nancy m. Southard 78 

*M. E. m. Nancy Charter 117 

J. B. m. Naomi Rogers 130 

Nellie 98 

♦♦Nellie F. 74 



♦Nellie W. 116 

**G. W. m. Nellie Kimball 74, 7.") 

Nettie 99 

•E. m. Norah Burnett 115 



Olive m. Bliss 


63 


Olive m. Howe 


44 


Olive May 


136 



P. m. Patience 2.5, 26, 32 

Patience m. Vermilye 40 

J. m. Patience Warner 65, 126 





J. 


m 


L. 


T. 


m 


L. 


T. 


m 



m. Patience Whittaker 66 

Pauline 99 

Paulina m. Adams 98 

Phalla 96 

Phalla m. Brooks 97 

m. Phalla Cobb 96 

Phoebe (Pe 40 

Phoebe (Ben 56 

Phoebe (Wi 79 

Phoebe H. 101 

Phoebe m. Bull 77 

Phoebe m. Borland 75 

Phoebe Atwill 56 

Phoebe Garratt 78 

Phoebe Roblin 79 

Polly m. Burton 58 

Polly m. Pierce 106 

C m. Polly Wardner 98 
Prudence m. Cushman 

■14 

**R. m. Prudence Bartlet 73 



Rachel ?. 15 

Rachel (An 87 

Rachel H. 90 

Rachel m. Brown 20, 21 
Rachel m. Knight 33. 
34. 49 
J. m. Rachel Wright 8, 9, 11. 

15 

Rebecca m. Shumway 41, 

42, 121 

Rebecca m. Wellington, 

64. 107 

*D. H. m. Rebecca Loomls 118 



xn 



INDEX 



C. W. m. Rebecca Teachout 
E. m. Rebecca Wilson 
J. P. m. Rebekah Germond 
Rhoda 
*A. H. m. Rhoda Powell 
♦Rosabell 
Rosamond R. 
O. m. Rosamond Asbold 
Rosetta A. 
♦Rosetta A. 
Roxa m. Baker 
J. m. Ruetta Chase 
Ruth 
Ruth A. 
Ruth E. 
Ruth M. 
Ruth P. 
**A. m. Ruth Gillaudett 
C. A. m. Ruth Noble 



98 

79 

85 

59 

117 

117 

69 

69 

93 

108 

77 

60 

98 

97 

136 

131 

86 

74 

95 



^ 



H. W. m. Sabina Harrison 
J. W. m. Sabra Hendee 
Sally 
P- m. Sally Cross 
Sally Paulina 
Sally W. m. Clarkson 
129 
B. m. Sally White 
Sarah (Pe 
Sarah (Jo 
Sarah (Ro 
♦Sarah (No 
Sarah (Pen 
Sarah (Da 
Sarah m. Andrews 
Sarah m. Bleecker 
Sarah m. Cain 
*Sarah m. Clark 
Sarah m. Hood 
Sarah m. Hutchins 

34, 

Sarah m. Palmer 

Sarah A. m. Stocking 81 

Sarah El 76 

Sarah Em 70 

Sarah H. 66 

Sarah J. m. Sisson 136 

Sarah J. m. Simmons 59 

**Sarah S. m. Griffin 73 

*N. m. Sarah Clark 109 

B. m. Sarah Cunningham 56 

O. m. Sarah Delano 95 



130 
71 
59 
91 
91 



129 
40 
34 
67 

109 
59 
80 
62 
75 
77 

U4 
87 

33, 
49 
56 



J. L. 

*0. F. 

J. R. 

D. W. 

A. M. 

J. B. 

F. C. 

*G. E. 

T. 



G. H. 

**B. R. 



m. Sarah Forbes 131 

m. Sarah Hanson 108 

m. Sarah Hill 76 

m. Sarah Kenyon 105 

m. Sarah Merritt 82 

m. Sarah Minnie 79 

m. Sarah Mudge 102 

m. Sarah Sandford 111 

m. Selina Rockwell 105 

Sibbell L. m. Wlggin 

131 

Sophia 103 

m. Sophia gO 

m. Sophronia Hungerford 

73 



'A. 


m. bophronia Willard 


112, 
114 




*Stella 


113 




Susan 


79 




Susan .m. Hunt 


68 




Susan E. m. Wharton 






130 




Susan M. 


78 


W. B. 


m. Susan Aldrich 


77 


H. 


m. Susan Bailey 


68 


P. P. 


m. Susan Bowen 


92 


W. 


m. Susan Hyde 


59 




Susannah m. Wescott 


62 


T. 


m. Susannah Whitney 


106 




Susie C. m. Pelton 


95 




Sybil 


44 




Sybil m. Daniel 33. 


34, 
49 


B. 


m. S>bil Learned 


68 




Sylvia C. 


133 




*rfylvia E. 


111 


B. 


m. Sylvia Healy 


13S 




Tressie E. 


82 




•Tryphenia 


111 



Valeria A. 57. 81 

Vinnie R. m. Conuell 86 



J. m. Waitstill Peck 



85 



*W. F. m. Zelma Perrin 116 

Zeruiah m. Hutchins, 33, 

34, 49 

Zerviah 58 

Zervlah m. Moore 41. 42. 

121 



INDEX 



Xlll 



SURNAMES 



TO BE FOUND IN THE CONNECTIONS BY MARRIAGE 



Adams 3 

Aldrich 2 

Allbee 

Allen 4 

Amesbury 

Andrews 

Asbold 

Aspinwall 

Atwill 



Bacon 2 

Bailey 2 

Baker 

Baldwin 

Barker 

Barry 

Bartlet 

Bayley 

Benjamin 2 

Beverage 

Birch 2 

Bishop 

Blanchard 

Bleecker 

Bliss 

Blount 

Bonsteel 

Bostwick 

Bowen 3 

Bowman 

Bown 

Bowron 

Boynton 

Brewster 

Briggs 

Brogdon 

Brooks 2 

Brown 3 

Buck 2 

Bull 

Burlingham 

Burnett 3 

Burnham 

Burr 2 

Burritt 

Burton 

Butler 2 



Cady 3 

Cain 2 

Cameron 

Caatleman 

Caston 

Chamberlain 

Chandler 

Chapin 

Charter 

Chase 

Cheney 

Chollar 2 

Church 

Clack 

Clark i 

Clarkson 

Cobb 

Comstock 2 

Conery 

Conley 

Connell 

Converse 

Cooper 

Copps 

Corbin 

Cosad 

Courtright 

Cowles 

Craft 

Crandel 

Craumer 

Cronk 

Crosby 

Cross 

Cuff 

Cunningham 3 

Curtice 

Curtis 

Cushman 

Cutler 



Daniel 
Darling 
Davenport 
Davis 2 
Davison 



Dayton 

Dean 

Decker 

Delano 

Deming 

Dennlson 

Dickinson 

Dickson 

Dorland 

Douglass 

Downing 

Dunlap 

Durkee 

Dustln 

Dyckman 



Eagleston 

Eaton 

Eldrldge 

Eley 

Ellsworth 

Emery 2 

Emsperger 

Evans 



Fairbanks 2 

Fairfield 

Falrlee 

Fen ton 

Ferguson 

Fexer 

Flint 2 

Folsom 

Forbes 

Foster 

French 

Fuller 



Gaines 
Gale 
Garratt 
Gates 2 
Gay 



XIV 



INDEX 



Germond 

Giddings 

Gifford 

Gillaudet 

Gilson 

Gleason 

Gordon 

Graves 

Green 

Griffin 

Grier 

Grov«r 

Guild 

Gunter 



Haight 2 

Hall 

Hallett 

Hamilton 

Hammond 2 

Hanson 2 

Harrass 

Harrington 

Harris 

Harrison 

Hascall 

Hatch 

Hayden 

Head 

Headlngton 

Healey 

Hebard 

Hedges 

Hendee 

Hill 

Hills 

Hinchliffe 

Hoatling 

Holmes 

Holt 

Hood 

Horsmor 

Horton 

Houeh 

Howe 2 

Hummiston 

Hungerford 

Hunt 2 

Huntington 

Hussey 

Hutchins 4 

Huyck 



Hyatt 3 
Hyde 2 



Inman 



Jeffers 
Jerow 
Johnson 2 
Johnston 
Jordan 



Kenyon 
Kimball 2 
Kingsbury 
Kip 
Knight 



Ladd 2 

Landis 

Larned 4 

Lawton 

Laycock 

Learned 2 

Lee 2 

Lewis 

Lincoln 

Lipsett 

Loomis 

Lounsberry 

Love 

Lovell 

Lumsden 



McCall 
McCutcheon 
Mac Donald 
Mc Donnell 
Mack 2 
McLennan 
McPherson 
Magoon 
Manchee 
Manlin 
Marsh 2 
Marshall 
Martin 2 



Mastin 

Mathews 

Matthews 

May 2 

Merrick 

Merrill 

Merritt 

Merserau 

Miller 2 

Minnie 

Mitchell 

Moon 

Moore 2 

Morgan 

Morris 

Morrow 

Morse 2 

Mowry 

Mudge 

Munaell 



Negus 
Nichols 
Noble 
Nunn 



Orcutt 
Osborn 
Osgood 
Owen 



Packard 

Paine 

Palmer 2 

Parkhurst 

Patchin 

Patterson '. 

Peake 

Pearson 

Pease 

Peck 

Peckham 

Pelton 

Perkins 

Perrin 2 

Pettis 

Phelps 2 

Phillips 

Picherau 



INDEX 



XV 



Pieratt 

Pierce i 

Pitman 

Plummer 

Powell 

Pratt 

Preston 

Putnam 



Hansom 

Rawson 

Reed 2 

Reynolds 

Richards 2 

Richardson ! 

Richmond 3 

Rider 

Robbios 

Roberts 

Robinson 

Roblin 

Robshaw 

Rockwell 

Rogers 4 

Rosebush 

Ross 

Rust 



Sabin 

St. John 

Sandford 2 

Saunders 

Scofleld 

Seaman 

Shaftener 

Sharp 

Shaw 

Sheldon 



Sherman 

Shortledge 

Shultze 

Shumway 

Sills 

Simmons 2 

Sisson 

Slater 

Smith 3 

Smithers 2 

Southard 

Sperry 

Stebbins 

Stedman 

Stocking 

Stoddart 

Stone 2 

Stowell 2 

Stratton 

Sweet 2 



Taft 

Teachout 
Thorn 
Torrey 
Tracy 
,^rusdell 
Tuell 



Upton 



Van Blaricombe 
Van Buren 
Van Deuiien 
Vermilye 
Vincent 



Wade 

Waldo 

Waldron 

Wallis 

Walters 

Wardner 2 

Warner 

Warren 2 

Washburne 

Weld 

Wellington 

Wells 

Wenman 

Werden 

Wescott 2 

Wharton 

Wheeler 

White i 

Whitford 

Whiting 2 

Whitman 

Whitney 

Whittaker 

Wiggin 

Wilbur 

Willard 2 

Williams 2 

Wilmarth 

Wilson 3 

Wing 

Winter 2 

Wood 

Woods 

Woodworth 

Work 

Wright 2 



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